[page 7] All emanation — any prolonging of the creative act through angelic "extensions" or Intelligences — became suspect. Religion grew deistic; God became the sole creator; and humanity's relation to meaning was reduced to what reason could manufacture on the basis of inferences from the senses alone.
What Steiner does in this book is to re-introduce to the modern reader the layers of God: the Spiritual Hierarchies and how they are interwoven with the external physical world that we experience with our senses. How is it possible for Steiner to know these things?
[page 15] All that arises in time originates in the eternal.
We have access to what arises in time through our senses, and to what originates in the eternal through super-sensible sight of what is called the Akashic Record or Chronicle. There is no electronic viewing screen for studying the Akashic Record. The only instrument delicate enough is the human being, one who is trained in the initiatory methods of super-sensible sight. Steiner was such a human being and he reports on his viewing of the Akashic Record in these lectures that are reproduced for us in this book. Steiner spent forty years preparing for his "spiritual mission of marrying initiation wisdom and modern scientific consciousness."
By means of his "initiation wisdom" Steiner is able to research the Akashic Record, and by means of his "modern scientific consciousness" he is able to cogently report on his findings in a way that speaks to the modern scientific reader.
Across the top of the Table is the Epochs of Evolution that we as humans are concerned about. Down the left edge of the Table is the Stages of Evolution as indicated by the name of a particular being. Each position in the Table can be designated by a number for convenience, e. g., [4,1] is the Physical Body, which the Mineral Stage of Evolution has during the Earth Epoch. The word in italics indicates the condition of the various bodies during a particular Epoch. Thus the Physical Body of the Mineral exists in a solid form during the Earth Epoch. [4,2] is the Etheric Body, which the Plant Stage of Evolution has during its Earth Epoch. [4,4] represents the challenge for Humans during the Earth Epoch — the development of their "I" or Ego Body.
By inspecting the Table we can see immediately that the Physical Body is the oldest body of Human Beings, as it originated during the fire or warmth condition of the Old Saturn Epoch. During that same Epoch Angels had already developed an Etheric Body, being one stage of evolution ahead of humans. During the next Epoch, Jupiter, the challenge for Humans will be to develop their Angelic Body.
With the help of this Table it is now possible to explain quickly and comprehensively, in a short presentation to modern researchers into consciousness and scientists from all fields of exoteric study, the process of evolution from a Steiner perspective. What helped me to understand the process I will explain below was a bumper sticker I saw on a car yesterday that caught my attention. The bumper sticker said simply: Being Safe is No Accident.
What this said to me is that, in any work place, some folks will pay careful attention to the safety rules, and by applying themselves industriously, will work their entire careers there without an accident. Call these folks A. The B, C, and D folks are not paying attention at the same level and they have accidents. They are not being safe. This thought helped me to understand how the beings at each Epoch progress at different rates and sort themselves into various stages of evolution.
First, note that each Epoch offers a challenge to the entire class of beings, and each class of beings has a different challenge. As we know from our individual experiences of life, not everyone applies themselves with equal diligence to the challenges that life presents to them, like in the case of the workers above. We are in a position now to see how Steiner applies this simple principle. He shows us that the evolution of the species proceeds in the opposite way to that presented by the Darwinian point of view: it is not the case that humans evolve from animals, but that animals devolve from humans, in a special sense that will be explained later.
In the [1,4] position of the chart is the earliest form of the Physical Body on Old Saturn. These Humans exist as individuals, some of which are more attentive to their challenge than others. Consider a scale of attentiveness and industry of application which goes from A, the highest level, to D, the lowest level. During the Old Saturn stage of evolution, all of the Humans receive the same amount of help from the [1,5] Angelic Beings but the A's pay the most attention and, with their high level of application, apply what they learn so that at the end of the Old Saturn epoch, the A's have the beginning of an Etheric Body. We show their progress by placing the A's in [2,4] of the Table of Evolution . The remainder of the Humans, with their various lesser degrees of attention and industry, have not acquired the beginnings of an Etheric Body, so they have managed to enter the Old Sun epoch with only a developed Physical Body. We show these Beings in Stage [2,3] of the Table of Evolution .
Let us follow the A's as they progress during the Old Sun stage. Again there are four categories of attention and industry that may be distinguished. Call these A, E, F, G. The A's by the end of the Old Sun stage have developed the beginnings of an Astral Body by attending to the inputs from [2,5] and applying what they learn with vigorous industry. We show their accomplishment by placing these A's [a subset of the previous A's] into [3,4] in the Table of Evolution .
The E, F, G's with their lesser accomplishments have not managed to create an Astral Body by the end of the Old Sun epoch and we show that condition by placing them into [3,3] of the Table of Evolution .
Again we follow the A's through the Old Moon stage of development and by the end of that epoch, a subset of the A's will have created the beginnings of an Ego Body, and the rest of the A's (some subset of the A's), call them J, K, L's will have worked on an Ego Body but are not finished creating one. The A's who created an Ego Body we place in [4,4], and the rest of the A's (the ones that didn't) we place in [4,3]. Those J, K, L's will be the higher mammals by virtue of their having bogged down at the Ego Body creation stage. The J's will be the primates: the chimps, apes, and gorillas that share so many characteristics with humans. The K's and L's will be the higher mammals just below the primates, such as dogs, cats, and horses.
Let us go back and inspect what happened to the B, C, D's that we placed into [2,3] of the Table of Evolution . They continue working on creating an Etheric Body during the Old Sun stage of evolution. By the end of the Old Sun epoch, let us call B those who succeeded in creating an Etheric Body, again through attentiveness and industry. These were the same B's who almost created an Etheric Body during the Old Saturn stage. As the Old Sun epoch ends, we show their progression by placing them in [3,3] in the Table of Evolution . C's and D's, with their lower application, do not quite create an Etheric Body for themselves and we show this condition by placing them in [3,2] in the Table of Evolution . These B's will continue to work on an Astral Body for themselves during the Old Moon epoch and arrive at the Earth stage with the beginnings of an Astral Body. These will be the lower animals by virtue of their having bogged down at the Etheric Body creation stage. There is a stage of animal development which takes the path [2,4] to [3,3] and these will be the intermediate animals, having bogged down at the Astral Body creation stage. The highest animals will be those who bogged down at the highest stage, the Ego Body creation stage of evolution.
Look at [3,2] of the Table of Evolution and follow the D's that were the least attentive and industrious of the original beings in the [1,4] stage on Old Saturn. These D's are still not able to create an Etheric Body during the Old Moon stage [3,2], therefore, at the beginning of the Earth epoch, they still have only a Physical Body. We show this condition by placing them into [4,1] of the Table of Evolution .
This is a sketch of the process that goes on at every level of evolution, in every box of the Table of Evolution . The four levels of attentiveness and industry by which the beings at each stage sort themselves out may be considered arbitrary, simply for the purposes of discussion, but they illustrate the sorting out that occurs in each class of beings at every stage of evolution.
To summarize: a being at each stage of evolution receives help from beings at a higher stage of evolution, and, to the extent that this help is freely received and utilized, the lower beings are able to progress to the next step in evolution. Rightly understood, this process will allow one to understand the deepest secrets of evolution.
A process is on-going, without beginning or end, it does not change, only the content on which it operates changes. Content is what arises in time, the process is eternal.
Observe a growing plant. In time it will add leaf after leaf as it reaches for the sky. The essence of the plant is minerals organized by its etheric or life body. With its etheric body, the plant can create roots, stem, and leaves, but leaves alone will not help the plant to reproduce itself. Something that is not in the plant is required for that to happen.
Imagine a plant all abloom with flowers and no higher beings observe or visit its flowers. Lacking an infusion of astrality from higher beings, the flowers will wilt, and its seeds will fall to the ground to return to their mineral condition [die].
Imagine the same plant in full colorful bloom with bees buzzing in and out of the flowers, crawling all over the pollen covered stamens and dropping pollen from their legs onto the waiting pistils. As the bees thus carry pollen from the stamens to the pistils, some of the bee's astrality attaches to the pollen and becomes attached to the seed that results when the pollen impregnates the ovule inside the pistil.
Now a miracle happens! The mineral and etheric plant takes on an astral glow surrounding its flowers, and the seeds have the potential to create a new plant. It is as though the bee, or the bird, or the human gardener, or the angelic garden spirit has created a copy of the final plant in astral form and has attached this astral blueprint to the seed, as a holographic image for it to grow into as the seed begins to sprout in the earth. New life has been created from the plant with the help of beings higher than itself.
Where are you, dear Reader? Are you producing leaves in your life? Are you like the plant producing leaf after leaf and wondering whether life is just about producing more and more leaves? Or are you producing flowers that will fall to the ground seedless? Where are you in your stage of evolution? Would you prefer to go it alone, to do it all yourself, using only your Mineral, Etheric, Astral, and Ego bodies? Or are you open to the energies and assistance from beings whose relation to you is similar to the relationship of bees to flowers? Is there an angelic glow that surrounds you even now?
In the world of spiritual activity we are as free as the flowers: we can choose whether to open ourselves to an infusion of energy from higher beings or not. Each one of us is a free agent of evolution, and it is our openness, our attentiveness, and our industry of application that will determine whether we finish our class with the A's or the D's.
And what is the task of Human Beings in this Earth epoch? It is to proceed to the next higher level of development at [5,4]. On page 67 and 68 Steiner explains what has to happen. To summarize: he says that our I or Ego Body has to work on Astral Body to attain mastery over it to create a Spirit Self or Manas. Then the I can work on the Etheric Body to create a Life Spirit or Buddhi. In the next phase the I works to overcome the powerful opposing forces of the Physical Body to create a Spiritual Body or Atman. Once we Humans have complete mastery of our Physical Body, what is next?
[page 68] The process continues higher and higher. We can look up to sublime beings who, dwelling in exalted spiritual heights become ever mightier. How do such beings become greater? At first, they need something, require something from the world. Later, they develop so that they can give something. The fundamental spirit and purpose of development is that one proceeds from taking to giving. We find an analogy in human development between birth and death. Children are helpless and must accept help from individuals in their surroundings. But, gradually, they outgrow this helplessness and become helpers in their own circle. The same is true of the grand span of human development in the universe.
To demonstrate that our world began with the process of giving, let us look at where the fire or warmth that permeated the Old Saturn Epoch came from. To do so, it will be necessary to create an Extended Table of Evolution by shifting the previous table three rows down and adding four more rows at the bottom to include the Powers, Mights, Dominions, and Thrones. The rest of the Spiritual Hierarchy continues to the Cherubim, Seraphim, and then the Godhead of the Holy Trinity. The Cherubim and Seraphim have the same relationship to the Thrones or Spirits of Will that the Angels and Archangels have to us: they carry the messages of God's plan for the universe to the Thrones. The Thrones at the beginning of the Old Saturn Epoch poured forth their substance in an act of giving that generated the fire or warmth that permeated Old Saturn. As Steiner says it on page 123, "They cause their own warmth substance to seep into the mass of Saturn." (This sounds to me like the universe began in a whimper more than a bang.) What was this warmth substance?
[page 123] Did a warmth substance already exist? What existed before can only be described as a neutral cosmic fire that was fundamentally one with universal space. In other words, to begin with there was only space.
Steiner seems very much like a modern day physicist talking about zero point energy, that loophole in quantum physics through which all of the energy of the world could flow.
Once this warmth began to trickle into Saturn, the spiritual beings began to work from two sides. From within the Powers, Mights, and Dominions, and from without the Thrones, Cherubim, and Seraphim. The Thrones "were able to trickle forth physical and warmth substantiality, were able, out of their own bodies, to bring forth the substance of Saturn.(page 127). The Thrones (Spirits of Will) created the warmth and the substance of our first physical body on Old Saturn [1,4] by an act of will. This sacrifice of the Thrones, originated in eternity, arises in each of us today when we feel permeated by warmth we do a good deed for someone else.
In the next Old Sun Epoch the Dominions (Spirits of Wisdom) work to add an etheric body which completely permeates the gaseous or air condition of the Sun [2,4], creating an inwardly alive being and causing light to appear. The light appears as the gifts bestowed by the Spirits of Wisdom are radiated back to its source.
[page 192] Where light occurs, the gifts of the Spirits of Wisdom are radiating back to us.
In the next stage of the Old Moon, the Mights (Spirits of Movements) step in to "lead the beings, who would otherwise have had to depend upon themselves, into relationship with all of the other beings"(page 223). The origin of the need of a new relationship begins in the rejected sacrifices of the Cherubim. Thus the water condition of the Old Moon has its spiritual foundation in renunciation or resignation. From this stage of evolution came our Astral Body.
[page 207] Wherever there is water in the world, there is divine renunciation!
In our current Earth Epoch the Powers (Spirits of Form) bring into being our I or Ego Body and our solid form, and with the solid element (earth) comes death.
[page 240] Being separated from one's purpose and meaning is what we call death, and death presents and fulfills itself in the element of earth.
[page 240]With this, we come to the spiritual nature of what we call the fourth element in the universe. If fire is in the purest sense sacrifice — and wherever fire or warmth occurs sacrifice lies spiritually behind it; if, behind everything that is spread out around our Earth as air, we discover gift-granting or bestowing virtue; if we can characterize flowing water, that is, the fluid element, as spiritual resignations or renunciation; then we must characterize the element of earth as the only bearer of death, as that which has been alienated from its meaning through rejection. Death would not exist if there were no element of earth.
It seems to me that Steiner is saying that when we fell into the solid state of matter in this Earth epoch as human beings, we became the most alienated from our spiritual origins that it is possible to be, and that alienation comes with the necessary concomitant of death. By this point in the lectures Steiner has reached completion on a promise he made early on: to show us the only thing that shows itself as reality in the whole world of illusion. The subtitle of Reality and Illusion hints at this revelation.
[page 241] Here we have nothing less than the great truth that, within the world of maya [illusion] the only thing that shows itself in reality is death!
What is true lies behind all other appearances which are only illusions or maya. Only in death is our separation from the spiritual reality made real once again. Rightly understood, "death is the only reality" (page 241). In addition death is only possible for Human Beings, all other beings, both higher and lower, are only capable of experiencing transformation, metamorphosis, and reordering, not death. Minerals experience no death; plants return to the living being Earth and sprout back out; animals return to their Group Soul that lives in the astral plane. Only Humans with their quadripartite bodies, having completed their descent into the earth or solid condition, can experience death. All events in the realm of appearances or maya have their origins in the spiritual world, all except one. That one exception is the deed of Christ in the Mystery of Golgotha. It has no prototype in the spiritual world.
[page 245, 246] It is an event that encompasses a death confined entirely within the physical realm. Therefore, it can only be understood within the context of the physical plane. Yes, it is one of the tasks of the human being on Earth to achieve this understanding in one of his or her incarnations.
I conclude this review of Spiritual Hierarchies with regret that I was not able to cover all the parts of the book. The entire section on how the realm of the zodiac is created by the prototypical animal nature of the hovering Cherubim is worth an entire review of its own. Lacking such a review, I would suggest a full reading of the book. "When learning something new, it's always best to know all about it before you start" is my way of approaching a new subject. It is a bootstrap approach, where we must know all about it before the first sentence makes full sense, so we read without meaning and slowly meaning begins to weave itself into our reading. I hope that reading this overview provided by this review, you will have had a chance to learn "all about it" before you start the book itself.
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It's Not Over Yet: Penn State Trustee Sends Notice of Appeal
The NCAA Committee on Infractions Has Spoken: Pepperdine University
The NCAA Committee on Infractions Has Spoken: University of Central Florida
Published by wpadmin at August 7, 2012
Following the announcement of the Consent Decree entered by the NCAA and Penn State, it would short sided to believe there would be no challenge to the entry of the Consent Decree. Relatively new Penn State trustee Ryan J. McCombie has hired counsel to appeal the Consent Decree and has requested "an opportunity to submit [an] appeal in writing, and further request an in-person oral argument before the Infractions Appeals Committee." Trustee McCombie is challenging the NCAA's adoption of findings contained in the Freeh Report including that the Board of Trustees "did not perform its oversight duties" and every sanction imposed on Penn State. Trustee McCombie pointed out the following errors:
1. The consent decree is null and void since the President of Penn State lacked the legal authority to agree to the entry of the Consent Decree or waive any rights, because the Board of Trustees was not informed or consulted.
2. The NCAA violated fundamental procedural due process rights by failing to follow its own rules and failing to conduct an investigation.
3. The Consent Decree is fundamentally unfair because it is based on the Freeh Report, which contains findings and conclusions that are contrary to the evidence. Further, the facts as found in the Freeh Report do not constitute violations of NCAA rules.
4. The sanctions imposed are excessive and unreasonable, because the sanctions "miss the mark" and "inflict permanent damage to an entire generation of student-athletes and coaches who were innocent of any wrongdoing."

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Jason Momoa in Talks for an Unknown Role in 'Batman vs. Superman'
Source: THR
Add one more cast member to the growing roster of Batman vs. Superman. Just last week we learned that Fast & Furious actress Gal Gadot was taking the role of Diana Prince (aka Wonder Woman) in the ever-expanding DC Entertainment adaptation at Warner Bros., and now one more cast member has entered the mix. THR has word that former "Game of Thrones" and Conan the Barbarian reboot star Jason Momoa has landed an unknown role in the sequel pitting Henry Cavill and Ben Affleck against each other as the Man of Steel and The Dark Knight. Could Momoa be playing an unknown villain, or another hero?
The trade speculates that Momoa could be on the side of the heroes as someone like Martian Manhunter, a superhero from the planet Mars and the last surviving member of his race. His natural abilities include super-strength, super-speed, invulnerability, flight, shape-shifting, intangibility and telepathy, and he's been a part of nearly every single iteration of Justice League. Of course, we're just sure just how expansive the roster for DC's superhero ensemble will be at first. He's got the physique for it, and Momoa was also up for the role of another cosmic hero in Guardians of the Galaxy, but the role went to wrestler Dave Bautista.
On the other hand, there's speculation that Momoa could go bad and play the major Superman villain Doomsday, the result of Kryptonian genetic engineering gone awry. Doomsday is a big deal because he was the one responsible for the death of Superman in the infamous storyline back in 1992. Supposedly there are even hints of Doomsday in the extras of the home video release of Man of Steel. Momoa also has the strength to pull off such an epic villain, but his acting chops have yet to be proven on a substantial level. But after seeing him as Khal Drogo on "Game of Thrones," it's not hard to picture him in the role. Here's hoping we get a real idea of the story sometime early next year when the film goes in front of cameras.
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This casting is just starting to get weird now. Jason Momoa? Really? Definitely should not as Martian Manhunter because that role does not fit him well. There were rumors Metallo could be in the film, either that or Doomsday. Hopefully not Lex Luthor also.
Charlie Hard on Dec 9, 2013
Lobo?
darius on Dec 9, 2013
Yeah This gonna be a train wreck! But hey they sell too.
Jimmy Love on Dec 9, 2013
Yeah. They are screwing things up so much. Less is more. They could have just done "World's Finest", made a billion dollars and made the fans happy.
DAVIDPD on Dec 9, 2013
Hopefully he'll just be nameless Thug #3.
grimjob on Dec 9, 2013
This man cannot act. Some sort of silent antagonist, ala darth maul, would be fine. He is extremely athletic but CANNOT ACT.
Brian Sleider on Dec 9, 2013
'Doomsday' perhaps?
Chad on Dec 10, 2013
Solomon Grundy ;P
Armitall on Dec 10, 2013
This is just getting silly. I was all in for Batman and Superman being together in a movie. But now with Wonderwoman and a possible other superhero it seems to be blowing up too quickly.
ListenToVinyl on Dec 9, 2013
This is why Warner Bros/DC cant be taken seriously. Get your shit together guys!
LosZombies on Dec 9, 2013
The same here. I was excited when it was anounced Batman and Supreman would be in the same movie, which ment they could set the atmosphere between the characters for further expansion down the road, but now it looks like all the other editions could overshadow this developement. I am affraid when they announce the official title it will be Justice League.
Definitely a villain.
DavideCoppola on Dec 10, 2013
Superman..? Several there mentioned abilities realy exist. In using the keywords Symbio Telepathy in Internet could be the numerous places about the principally Telekinetic Telepathy which already is proven. And within the years nobody said, that he came to the possibility say Not. About the existance there mentioned abilities of the proven telepathy. This symbio way appeared from Lithuania as the very effortless explained form. And in any way it was the very prepared conclusions form, that today exist a simple shame's condition of American experts, who were not the enough smart to concluse something better. And it is the indeed dangerous powers training way. Symbio Telepathy. Two keywords to find manything visible, that the real man in this field should be even more competetive faighter VS. Superman.
Valdas Virbilas on Dec 10, 2013
He can be a better Wonder Woman than Gal Gadot.
capitandelespacio on Dec 10, 2013
Thank you, I got called an idiot for saying Gal Gadot was not a good wonder woman.
The Truth on Dec 10, 2013
The lesser we know about this movie will be the best. I just want to enjoy it, as I enjoyed Man Of Steel.
LOBO !!!!!!!!!
Alexander Gramlich on Dec 10, 2013
NO! God NO! If they wanna do The Main Man then they need a GOOD actor. Not a Teal'c clone.
Jimmy Love on Dec 10, 2013
What about Dwayne Johnson? He's got the physique, and the smart-mouth of Lobo.
VAharleywitch on Dec 11, 2013
First off, Doomsday should not be incorporated this early. Hell, he is one of supermans dangerous villains who ends up almost killing superman for good. We need about 3 good supermans before he is involved. It could take all of justice leage to wipe this guy out along with Darkseid. Please dont screw this up.
Such heroic nonsense on Dec 10, 2013
Zan!!!!!!!!
So this "Superman VS Batman" movie is becoming more and more like an Avengers-type thing. I think they (DC) would be better served to take time and craft things and people before throwing them all together. Sure, not every hero would need their own movie first, but too much too soon will make it tough to follow.
theslayer5150 on Dec 10, 2013
I don't know wy you people think that just because wonder woman (or potentially another superhero) is announced to be in the film, it means she has a main role in it. Samuel L Jackson was in the first Ironman after all and all that did was set up future movies.
Brian Michael on Dec 23, 2013


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Japan hails school clerk who won Boston Marathon
in Headline, Sports
Yuki Kawauchi of Japan celebrates with the trophy after winning the men's division of the 122nd Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., April 16, 2018. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Tokyo, April 17, 2018 — Japan today hailed local school clerk Yuki Kawauchi, the surprise winner of the Boston Marathon, who called work after his victory to ask for an extra day off to celebrate.
When Kawauchi ploughed across the finish line yesterday, despite the coldest start in 30 years and steady rain, he became the first Japanese runner to win the race since 1987.
In a poetic twist of fate, that was the year Kawauchi was born.
He finished the punishing 26.2 mile course with a time of 2hrs 15min 58sec.
The humble bureaucrat, who has no coach and no sponsor and trains on his free time, has been hailed across Japan for the shock triumph.
"It is a tremendous achievement to win Boston, which is one of the highest quality races in the world," Toshihiko Seko, the Japanese runner who won the race in 1987 and 1981, told national broadcaster NHK.
"In the horrible conditions that everyone hates, Kawauchi managed to maintain the toughest spirit, more than anyone else," he said.
In a country that values modesty and hard work, Kawauchi's quiet dedication has garnered widespread admiration.
At the Kuki High School in Saitama region, where Kawauchi works, officials said he had been in touch — to ask about an extra day off.
'The greatest day of my life'
Apparently not expecting his win, Kawauchi had planned to fly back to Japan the morning after the race and start working from Wednesday evening.
"He called to ask for an extra day off because he has to attend functions there," said school official Yasuhiro Mitsui.
"The principal told him 'Congratulations, you have done very well'," Mitsui said, adding that the holiday extension had been granted.
No celebrations were being planned at the school, Mitsui said, in keeping with Kawauchi's low-key approach to his running.
His training is done outside working hours, and he competes in races on weekends or on holiday.
"Generally he has kept his work and marathon separate. We support him, like we support others, by covering his work while he is gone," Mitsui said.
Marathons are hugely popular in Japan, and Kawauchi is well known for juggling his day job with his running passion.
"I want to show that you can compete at the world level even if you have a job like I do," he has said of maintaining the balance.
After his win Monday, a tearful Kawauchi declared: "This is the greatest day of my life."
"There was no one who thought I would be the winner. I was able to prove that marathon is a sport in which you cannot tell what happens until the finish."
But while the Boston victory might be the biggest of his career, but it is far from his only marathon win.
In fact, the 31-year-old has racked up five consecutive marathon wins with his latest victory, including races in Japan, the US, and Taiwan.
Last month, he was recognized by the Guinness World Records for the highest number of marathons run in under two hours and 20 minutes — 78 in all.
And he won't be resting on his laurels long, with plans to run a half marathon this weekend in the Japanese city of Gifu, he told Japanese media.
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Starting with January 2018, 26 partners from 16 countries - including Z_GIS/University of Salzburg - and initially 22 associated partners will collaborate in the the new EO4GEO project, which is focusing on education and training in the space/gesopatial sector.
EO4GEO - Towards an innovative strategy for skills development and capacity building in the space geo-information sector supporting Copernicus user uptake is coordinated by the GISIG association and will run for four years.
The project aims at bridging the skills gap between supply and demand of education and training in the space/geospatial sector. The collaboration partners are focusing on reinforcing the existing ecosystem and fostering the uptake and integration of space/geospatial data and services in end-user-applications.
EO4GEO is an Erasmus+ sector skills alliance gathering partners from the education/training and space/geospatial sectors . Most of the partners from academia, private and public sector are part of the Copernicus Academy Network. The project has been approved by the EU Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA).
reports on the development and application of object-based image analysis (OBIA) methods for semi-automated landslide mapping using optical and SAR remote sensing data. Both the complexities in efficiently and accurately identifying, mapping and inventorying landslides as well as the potentials of powerful methods such as OBIA coupled with results from synthetic aperture radar interferometry (InSAR) are described and discussed.
Quotations from Daniel Hölbling are exemplified by several examples from his and his colleagues' research on landslides in Taiwan, New Zealand and Iceland, including field photos from past field trips. The article also emphasizes the ongoing research carried out in the MORPH (Mapping, Monitoring and Modelling the Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Land Surface Morphology) project.
The article by freelance writer Mary Jo Wagner was compiled based on interviews with and material provided by Daniel Hölbling, who coordinates the landslide related research at Z_GIS. The story was also published in the November issue of the American Surveyor Magazine.
Z_GIS was invited to the Regional Conference on Cooperation in Higher Education organized by the European Commission's offices in Brussels and Myanmar on 29th and 30th November, 2017 in Yangon. The main aim of the conference was to foster cooperation among various Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Europe and the ASEAN region (especially from Myanmar, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam) as well as motivate the ASEAN HEIs to apply for various types of projects within the ERASMUS+ framework. Altogether, the conference attracted about 150 participantsk.
The conference was adorned by high level delegates, i.e. Mr. Kristian Schmidt (Ambassador of the European Union to Myanmar), H.E. Prof. Dr. Myo Thein Gyi (Myanmar Union Minister for Education), Ms. Milvia van RIJ-BRIZZI (Head of Department - Erasmus+ & EU Aid Volunteers, European Commission, Brussels), a large number of Rectors, Vice Rectors and Professors from various HEIs in the region.
Dr. Shahnawaz represented Z_GIS in the conference and gave a presentation about an ongoing ERASMUS+ KA2 project 'GeoServices-4-Sustainability (GeoS4S)'. The organisers also asked him to lead a group of the participants from various HEIs aspiring to submit a project proposal. He explained to them various steps from designing an innovative project idea to developing a competitive project proposal and submitting complete documents. Later he was invited for a meeting at the Department of Geography, University of Yangon for exploring the opportunities of cooperation with Z_GIS.
The context of climate smart coffee and cacao is in the focus of a PhD carried out by Mona Bartling (supervisor: Prof. Thomas Blaschke). The PhD topic is based on the BMZ (German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development) funded project "Climate smart coffee and cacao: from theory to practice" (CSCC), carried out from January 2017 until December 2019. The CSCC project seeks to improve coffee farmers' income level while increasing the coffee systems resilience against climate change by mainstreaming climate-smart adaptation and mitigation practices.
Capacity will be built throughout the sector to deliver site-specific information by using the GeoFarmer application which is based on the GeoCitizen platform. These ICT tools will be further developed and used for 'real-time' delivery and monitoring of Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) package implementation, collection of feedback from all actors and in all stages of the project.
The GeoCitizen platform is the English version of the Bürgercockpit application which is being further developed by the Z_GIS spin-off Spatial Services. Therefore, the enhancement of ICT tools within this project is of use not only to the GeoFarmer application, but all derived application versions of the GeoCitizen platform.
In her PhD Mona Bartling focuses on improving the usability of these ICT platforms by studying the implementation of gamification elements for enabling a higher level of participation, in particular of marginalised user groups with a low level of digital literacy. Partnering institutes in this project are the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA).
Z_GIS graduates Jakob Miksch and Martin Sudmanns (who is now part the scientific team at Z_GIS) and their colleague Karina Krampf got second place at the first EU Datathon in Brussels for their web application LightOnEurope. Congratulations!
The web application allows users to explore any region within Europe by simply drawing it on the map – regardless of administrative boundaries. Based on the user-defined region, the app renders an infographic which conveys relevant and easy to comprehend information on it. Currently, open data on population, landcover, mountains and climate are included. An extension with other datasets such as infrastructure and lakes, but also real-time information on the weather, etc. is envisaged. The app aims to support citizens in exploring regions and in understanding their spatio-temporal dynamics. It is also relevant for other domains such as tourism and transportation and it supports enterprises in finding attractive business sites.
The EU Datathon 2017 – Reusing European Union open data for jobs and growth – EU Open Data Portal Datathon was jointly organised by the Estonian Presidency of the Council of the European Union and the Publications Office of the European Union.
Presenting the LightOnEurope app, the jury emphasised the use of geospatial location to combine datasets across the borders of EU states – an approach which is familiar to the team as all three members are geographers.
More information and news on the app - including the launching date - is available on Twitter and the LightOnEurope-Website. For more information on the app take a look at the presentation and the demo video.
About 100 pupils and 40 teachers from a variety of high schools from Salzburg and Upper Austria attended the 2017 GIS Day event at the Z_GIS iDEAS:lab to explore geospatial technologies and applications. After an initial talk on "Location as interface – geomedia in the 21st century" by Robert Vogler a wide range of topics and tools was presented and tested by the participants: sensors and smart buildings, microsimulations, learning with geomedia and rightwing extremism and geomedia, to name just a few.
The attendees actively participated in the programme, such as a group of pupils who shared its experience with the GI Learner programme. Some teachers attended the event in the course of a teacher in-service training.
Cities are known as complex, densely populated environments with transport infrastructure playing a substantial role. With a new policy push to shift people's travel behavior to healthy mobility, improved cycling routes may positively alter the comfort of travelers. A model of traffic flow can help city planners to delineate spots where road rearrangement is required. By means of a simulation approach the model can imitate disaggregated movements of a very large amount of travelers in a spatio-temporal manner. Characteristics of a built bicycle network and a natural environment influence the choice of every individual to use their preferred transport mode and route within a day. Thus, dynamic assignment of people's daily activity schedules depends on a combination of their personal attributes, along with environmental conditions and interactions. These assumptions in transport modelling are supported by an agent-based approach, which allow unpredictable patterns to emerge.
The FFG funded FamoS project develops such a bicycle traffic flow model for the city of Salzburg in the GAMA-platform simulation environment, using the agent-based modelling approach. A project partner, the Institute of Highway Engineering and Transport Planning from the Technical University of Graz, implements a classical 4-step transport modelling technique to develop a similar bicycle demand model for Graz.
Congratulations to Martin Sudmanns, Hannah Augustin, Christian Werner, Anna-Maria Cavallaro, Dirk Tiede and Stefan Lang! The Z_GIS researchers developed and submitted a web-application to the Copernicus Masters University Challenge 2017.
The tool aims to improve the conceptualisation, planning and feasibility assessment of earth observation (EO) projects by providing information about the suitability of data for known project specifications. Projects utilising European Sentinel satellite data can be approached more efficiently, saving time and initial planning costs. The tool will also aid less experienced users of EO-data towards more efficient and targeted project planning and execution.
The interactive Web-based tool visualises and analyses the metadata of the 2+ million currently accessible Sentinel-2 images, revealing spatio-temporal variability of acquisitions that inherently influence analyses. It allows querying spatially explicit aggregated information, such as average cloud cover, average time span between scene acquisitions, time gap between cloud-free scenes, etc. Analytical maps explore specific themes (e.g. cloud cover) improving the identification of suitable study areas, or retrieval of Sentinel-2 imagery for a use-case with specific data characteristics.
For example, a project team might be interested in monitoring deforestation in Indonesia based on change detection using a time-series. With the tool, the users can select an area-of-interest and immediately retrieve relevant information about the frequency of acquisition, historic information of the average time between cloud-free acquisitions, etc.
Dr. Shahnawaz has been has been honoured with the 'Excellency Award 2017' by the Union of Geographic Information Technologists (UGIT) established at Bangalore University, India for his contributions in enhancing geospatial education, training and research in South and Southeast Asia over last fifteen years. He is Director of UNIGIS S/E Asia at the Interfaculty Department of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS, University of Salzburg, Austria and has established cooperations for Geospatial education between Z_GIS and a number of leading universities in S/E Asia and implemented a range of cooperation activities.
Dr. A. S. Kiran Kumar, Chairman - Indian Space Research Organisation conferred the award on Dr. Shahnawaz in Bangalore during the inaugural session of the 6th UGIT's International Conference on Climate Change and Sustainable Water Resource Management – Innovative Geospatial Solutions schedule from November 9 to 11, 2017.
Johannes Kapser defends his PhD Thesis "Modeling of thermal lifts"
Johannes Kapser, PhD candidate at Z_GIS successfully defended his PhD Thesis "Modelling of Thermal Lift: Techniques for Mining Thermal Eddies from Aerial Movement Data".
Being a passionate glider pilot Johannes' research was all centred around the core question "how to model thermal lift based on collectively sensed aerial trajectory data". Therefore he approached this central research question through three main research themes: thermal lifts, trajectory parameters and patterns, and data-based deterministic and probabilistic modelling.
As one of his major results, Johannes came to the conclusion that there is great potential in the explict geospatial modeling of thermal eddies for better understanding of thermal processes in different environments. The successful modeling of the relation between environmental context and thermals can also accelerate research in the direction of thermal prediction for secure identification of thermal lifts.
A very international audience followed Johannes' impressive and challenging presentation and actively participated in the lively discussion between after the evaluators, Dr. Josef Strobl and Dr. Robert Marschallinger, both from Z_GIS at the University of Salzburg were satisfied with all their questions. Dr. Thomas Blaschke as the main supervisor acted as the chair.
Johannes works for a private company in the Munich aerospace industry. We wish him well on his road to a successful career in industrial research!
Congratulations to Bernd Resch and the "Urban Emotions" project team! The project was awarded second at this year´s "VCÖ Mobilitätspreis Salzburg". The prize is awarded annually by the Austrian traffic organisation Verkehrsclub Österreich (VCÖ).
The "Urban Emotions" project aims to establish a more citizen-centric view of urban planning through integrating emotional responses to their environment. Do they feel comfortable or are they scared in underpasses or at traffic hotspots?
b) from social media: analysis of publicly accessible data from social networks like Twitter, Facebook , Flickr and Instagram using semi-supervised machine learning algorithms.
The project aims to promote climate-friendly mobility and citizen-centered urban planning. Field studies in Kaiserslautern and in Boston are already concluded. In the aftermath of the project, the city administration of Kaiserslautern already improved the infrastructure and security for its bikers and initiated awareness-building programmes for climate-friendly mobility. The next field study will be conducted in the city of Salzburg.
Within the Erasmus+ "International Credit Mobility" programme (KA107), Sabine Hennig (Z_GIS) is currently lecturing and leading workshops and tutorials at RTS University in Dushanbe and subsequently at Khorog State University (Tajikistan).
Focusing on the benefits of applying Web GIS in tourism and recreation planning and management, she is also providing students with an introduction to GIS and spatial analysis methods.
The KA 107 programme is key to academic mobility with (non-EU) partner countries.
We invite you to explore the 'gSmart' project's report brochure which provides comprehensive information on the Z_GIS coordinated Erasmus Mundus scholarship mobility project 'gSmart - Spatial ICT Infrastructures for Smart Places'. Today, the Joint Coordinators have submitted the Final Report to the EACEA office in Brussles, the project has been successully concluded on July 14, 2017.
These gSmart scholarships focused on all levels of study, with the anticipation that this study and research mobility will in turn create new job opportunities, contribute to the enhancement of quality in teaching and learning of Geoinformatics as well as advancing research activities in this interdisciplinary domain. Further information on mobility flows provide the scholar's e-portfolios and 'Success Stories'.
This interactive and dynamic maps on gSmart mobilities from Central Asia to Europe are showing all project scholarship mobility flows >> http://arcg.is/1sEBB5H.
2013 – 2017, Erasmus Mundus funded mobility scholarship project for Central Asian students and staff. 106 reported scholarships. Bachelor to PhD and Post-Doc levels, and Faculty. Short visits as well as completion of full degree programs. 6 partner universities in Europe. 13 Central Asian Higher Education Institutions. State of the art education in Geoinformatics.
KA107 - this sounds like a mysterious code providing secret access to something highly desirable, and it is exactly that: this EU programme is key to academic mobility with (non-EU) partner countries.
Z_GIS has a long tradition of facilitating (predominantly) incoming mobility by students and faculty. More than 100 mobility scholarships were the core element of the recently completed gSmart project, and play an important role in the current GeoS4S initiative.
The ongoing KA107 scheme is entirely focussed on academic mobility, with Z_GIS successfully participating with our partner institutions across a wide range of partner countries: these include the Central Asian republics of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan as well as Bhutan, Nepal, India, Thailand, China, New Zealand and Australia.
Prof Josef Strobl, Head of Department @Z_GIS states: "We are looking forward to welcome programme participants from universities in these countries and expect them to enrich the international character of our department as well as study programmes, and vice versa take home valuable knowledge, experiences and friendships."
From a broader perspective, Paris-Lodron University Salzburg (PLUS) clearly is a leading university in cooperation with partners worldwide. Compared to other Austrian Higher Education Institutions, PLUS within KA107 organizes a dominant share of Austrian student and faculty mobilities with partner institutions in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Through highly rated and successful applications within the Erasmus+ 'International Credit Mobility' (KA107) program PLUS already has secured 1.6 million Euro in funding, available to attract excellent students and faculty from leading institutions worldwide, as well as opening doors for Salzburg students and academics at these partners.
"This raises the international visibility of Salzburg, increasingly being recognized not only as a cultural highlight, but also as an academic hub for higher learning and cutting-edge research" says Peter Mayr, Director for International Relations.
For details regarding International Credit Mobility (KA107) funding across Austrian institutions, please refer to https://bildung.erasmusplus.at/de/hochschulbildung/internationale-mobilitaet/mein-laufendes-projekt.
agri-HIMAL workshop completed in Nepal.
The GIScience Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Interfaculty Department of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS, University of Salzburg, Austria and Tribhuvan University (TU), Kathmandu, Nepal jointly organised a regional workshop on 'GIScience Assessing the Feasibility of Agricultural Diversification in the Himalayas (agri-HIMAL)' in Kathmandu, Nepal from 27 to 31 August, 2017.
Dr. Shahnawaz (Z_GIS) and Prof. Krishna Poudel (CDE) coordinated this workshop hosted by the Central Department of Education (CED-TU). The Eurasia-Pacific Uninet (EPU), the event brought together 23 teachers, students and practitioners from Nepal, Bhutan and Austria.
The opening ceremony attended by the workshop participants and dignitaries from various academic and administrative departments of TU was chaired by Prof. Krishna Prasad Gautam (Dean, Faculty of Education). He expressed appreciation of the ongoing cooperation between the GIScience Commission, Z_GIS and TU as well as conveyed thanks to the EPU for supporting such joint activities. The participants learned about the physical, climatic and socio-economic specifics of the Himalayas through a series of lectures. They did 'hands-on' practical exercises on ArcGIS and MaxEnt software to process and analyse various geospatial datasets for assessing the feasibilities of agricultural diversification in the Himalayas.
The Rector of TU, Prof. (Ms). Sudha Tripathi, conferred the 'certificates of successful completion' on the participants. All participants appreciated the organisation of the workshop and expressed a high level of satisfaction about their learning outcomes within the short period of one week, and envisaged to expand academic cooperation between their respective institutions and Z_GIS.


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Team Clarity Week 21/46 A 10 Year Plan?! Really?
Episode 21 challenges Team Clarity to think BIG! Big as in charting out 10 years into the future! To help create a powerful chart, we explore a unique, insightful exercise! What is that exercise? Listen and learn how to have life-changing talks with those who you WANT in your life for at least a decade!


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It must have been around the summer of 1999 that i made my first drum during a shamanic course with Maarten Bosscher/Thunderhorse and Jos Heerkens/Twobears, the drummaker, in Portugal. At first i didn't want to join, but after meeting my drumspirit and the spirits Maarten was working was, i decided to go for it. During those weeks Jos' and mine paths kept on crossing (literally) and we started living and later working together. We were looking for a name for the drums, so i asked the ambling fire for a name, and dreaming drums was the answer! In the beginning we thought, ok nice name, good alliteration, and we slowly introduced it. However we learned that there was so much more to this name, the dreaming quality of the sound, the overtones, the journeying, and people also very often dreamed of their drums. Sometimes they came to visit for a workshop to create their own drum, to discover that we already made the drum they dreamed of.
After many years we went our own way, i went to the UK, Jos went back to Holland. Very unfortunately and sadly Jos passed away last year. After that i moved from the UK to France, the Dordogne, to an old farmhouse in a gorgeous environment to be able to live the dream of making drums in connection with nature. On the land are two springs in the valley, and as often i saw Jos his eyes staring at me, there i realised he wanted to say goodbye, but also i understood a little more about the meaning of the name, it is also the bear's quality of dreaming, living in his cave and hibernating, the quality of healing and dreaming. In this area are also lots of caves, even on the land, plenty of opportunity for meditation, drumming, connecting, healing.
Our move to France wasn't without problems, they kept all our stuff for two months because of a dispute between the two moving companies, although we didn't know that immediately. The fear of loosing all the tools, wood etc for the drummaking wasn't the best start for our new life. And a few months later my partner had a serious stroke and is still in the process of recovering.
It somehow feels that the circle is closing, and during the last workshop drummaking in our house, the man told me that he constantly had the feeling Jos was sitting behind him.
I really hope that we will find a new balance in our life, connect with nature and create many dreaming drums!
Shamandreams is based in the Dordogne, near the little village Saint-Front-sur-Nizonne.


It's hard enough being a new mom without feeling like your parenting abilities are being judged, but you'll find that a lot of people you don't even know have opinions about how you should raise your child. The fuss over moms returning to the workplace is decades-long and shows no signs of slowing down.
The decision to go back to work after having a baby is easy for some moms and agonizing for others. Some women don't have a choice but to go back to work, while others desire a return to their professional life. The first step to adjusting is to accept your decision and be happy with it. If you're lucky, you're returning to doing something you love and may have missed on the days when it seems you don't do anything but change diapers. If you've got a job that pays the bills, then that's one less financial worry.
Either way, remember that you're doing what's best for you and your family. Having a child in daycare doesn't make you a bad mom. Just think of what your son or daughter has to look up to -- a strong, smart mother with skills and talents of her own.


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Caper's AI-powered shopping carts could represent the future of cashier-free shopping
Caper's solution is far more scalable than others
By Cohen Coberly on January 10, 2019, 18:21
While it seemed like brick-and-mortar retail would be all but killed off following the explosive rise of online shopping, what we're instead seeing throughout the US is not death, but evolution.
Amazon has already proven with its "Go" stores that, using a combination of AI, sensors, and cameras, a completely cashier-free checkout experience is possible.
However, even if the system pays off in the long-run, it's complex and difficult to scale. Installing and maintaining hundreds (if not thousands) of cameras and sensors across a superstore like Walmart or Target is likely a bit impractical.
That's where Caper comes in. The start-up, founded by CEO Lindon Gao, has been working on an "AI-powered shopping cart" that will let customers simply grab items from store shelves and toss them in.
At that point, Caper says built-in sensors can automatically identify each item and tally up the total price of the cart's contents. At the end of a shopping trip, customers can pay using a built-in payment terminal.
It's easy to see how valuable Caper's solution could be to major retailers. Unlike Amazon Go's camera-based checkout technology, Caper's carts sound much more scalable, without compromising on the promise of cashier-free shopping.
Caper has begun testing its technology in "2 grocery chains," but only in a more limited format for now. Shoppers have to manually scan each item's barcode before placing it in their cart, so the process isn't as automatic as Caper hopes it will be in the future.
However, that could change during the rest of 2019, as Caper says it's hoping to launch its technology across 150 additional store locations throughout the year.
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Bitcoin's new surge is driving AMD shares up
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Microsoft posts record $125.8 billion revenue for the ending fiscal year
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This thesis takes a multidisciplinary, practice-based perspective on corporate branding as a strategic change initiative, so as to contribute to a better understanding of the intraorganizational dynamics and complexities of a corporate branding process. The study extends the emerging strategy-as-practice approach to the domain of corporate branding in order to explore how the organizational understanding of the ways in which the corporate brand is to be built and implemented emerges. The endeavour of corporate branding is viewed and analyzed as a social process, where the members of an organization interpret branding in and through interaction with others. Hence, the study builds on the theory of organizational sensemaking and the notion of collectively produced accounts in order to capture the continuously evolving and changing nature of a corporate branding project.
The empirical study is conducted in a transnational, industrial company, which operates in a business-to-business environment, and the reciprocal sense-making and sense-giving activities between the corporate centre and middle management are explored. More specifically, the objective is to investigate how the entire corporate branding process is mediated by socio-culturally and socio-historically constructed change management practices. The empirical analysis identifies three trans-subjective practices of change management, the practices of steering, surveying, and simplifying, which exert their influence by governing the stream of sense-making and sense-giving activities, and by mediating the way the organizational account of corporate branding evolves. The empirical analysis also shows that the practices of steering, surveying and simplifying contribute to a recursive change management approach, both enabling but also constraining the building of the corporate brand.
The contributions of the study are threefold. First, in the realm of corporate branding, the thesis investigates the behaviour of senior and middle management in building the corporate brand. As opposed to purely cognitive perspectives of branding, the thesis takes a sociological approach and focuses on the trans-individual practices of change management. Second, while much of the existing research on organizational sense-making has focused on the cognitive processes of individual top managers and other strategy practitioners from a psychological perspective, this research shifts the analytical focus on the social practices and the associated collective background understandings through which members of the organization make sense of the corporate brand -related strategic change. Third, it advances knowledge in the field of strategy-as-practice by focusing on intangible, embodied change management practices, such as practical understanding, know-how, emotions and motivations. Moreover, it attempts to illustrate the way the practice bundles interact.


Georgette is a lightweight fabric and is made from silk. It is dull-finished fabric named after the early 20th century French dressmaker Georgette de la Plante. It is a bit bouncy and light crepe texture, also slight rough but gives rubbery texture when rubbed. Georgette is free flowing textile fabric and used by affluent people. Pure Georgette is expensive and very thin in nature, earlier it was used by royal families as it looks elegant and classy. It is one of the most consumed textile product and always in demand. Generally, georgette is bit transparent so people use slip or linen to wear Georgette Fabic.
80grms Georgette: It is used for making wedding lehengas, designer sarees as it the most expensive and pure georgette fabric. The beauty of this fabric is – It is a bit heavy and hold heavy Chikan hand embroidery or machine work.
60grms Georgette: It is one level below 80grms georgette. It is best for hand chikankari embroidery and quite affordable by people. It can also be used for heavy Anarkalis, Salwar Suits and Saree work.
Artificial Georgette or Faux Georgette: This should not be considered as georgette as this is made of polyester weaving done in the fabric and that's why called Faux Georgette. It is the cheapest among all form of Georgette.
You can find the difference between Pure and Faux Georgette by its roughness. The Faux Georgette has a very hard roughness compare to Pure Georgette.
Typically, Faux Georgette is 4-5 times cheaper when compare to the Pure Georgette fabric. Another difference is : Dyed Faux georgette looses it colours in few washes and becomes fade, you can experience it by look & feel while Pure georgette always look beautiful and doesn't loose its colours.
So beware of the shopkeepers who sell cheap georgette (Faux Georgette) in the name of pure Georgette.
Drop a mail to anchal@dress365days.com for more enquiry .


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Paddling At-a-Glance
The Dragonboat Association of Southern Alberta (DASA) is a non-profit society that was established in 2007 with the idea to develop the sport of dragon boating within Lethbridge. What started with a handful of like-minded individuals gathering around a kitchen table has now grown to include an elected 11-member board of directors, 6 boats, 2 sea cans, a trailer full of equipment and over 150 active members (in a non-COVID Year!) DASA has come to represent a number of local teams and individuals in the dragon boat community within Lethbridge and throughout southern Alberta.
DASA is run completely by volunteers and we need you. Whether you are part of a team, or a community member, we have a variety of opportunities for you to get involved in this great, low-cost sport.
Our Board is passionate about dragon boats – come and join us!
Leanne DuMontier, President
To promote, support and develop dragon boating by providing training, equipment and events.
Providing opportunities for all paddlers to reach their full potential by nurturing passion and enjoyment for dragon boating.
Culture, Sportsmanship, Communication, Safety, Fitness and Fairness.
The Dragonboat Association of Southern Alberta(DASA) is a non-profit society that promotes the sport of dragon boating in Southern Alberta. DASA represents many teams and individuals in the dragon boat community and acts as an umbrella organization for a variety of dragon boat teams and individual paddlers. The club offers opportunities for members to enjoy this great, low-cost team sport. See Paddling At-a-Glance for information on available programs.
DASA is governed by an elected board of directors who oversee the club's governance. DASA activities are supported by a team of dedicated volunteers who are passionate about dragon boating.
Dragon boating is one of the fastest growing sports in the world. Our membership reflects this trend, growing to over 150 members in 2019. Membership remains strong, despite COVID limitations.
President – Leanne DuMontier
Term: 2020- 2022
Past President – Tracy Henninger
Term: 2020 – 2022 (non-voting position)
*Vice-President – Tom Doyle
Term: 2021 – 2022
*Moves into President's role in 2022
Treasurer – Nancy Graham
Secretary – Connie Gross
Communication – Linda Gilbert
Safety Director – Dave Hunt
Team Liaison – Romina Senneker
Technical Director – Karen Johnson
Youth Director – Dorothy Graham
Term: 2020 -2022
Fundraising / Sponsorship – Vacant
Chinese Community (Appointed – non-voting position)
Email: dasalethbridge@gmail.com
Address: Box 961 T1J 4A2
Copyright © 2022 Lethbridge Dragon Boat Association of Southern Alberta


The Stewart Bioinformatics Group (http://morgridge.org/bioinformatics-2/) is a computational biology group focusing on developing methods for analysis of large biomedical datasets. We are recruiting post-doctoral researchers to develop novel computational data analysis tools to solve cutting-edge problems in regenerative biology. Some of the relevant data types include, but are not limited to, the following: bulk and single cell RNA-seq, ATAC-seq, ChIP-seq, large text corpora such as PubMed, and electronic health records. The specific project will depend on the candidate's experience and interest as well as the needs of the lab. Most positions are interdisciplinary and will involve direct collaboration with University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty in the departments of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics and/or Computer Science.
The Morgridge Institute for Research promotes and supports a diverse and inclusive environment.


The mother of a 13-year-old girl fatally shot on a private school bus in Homestead, Fla., in front of her little sister on Wednesday said she wants answers.
Lourdes Guzman, 13, known as Jina to her family and friends, was shot while riding a private school bus about 6:45 a.m. Tuesday in the area of Southwest 296th Street and Southwest 137th Avenue in Homestead, police said. Eight other children, including Guzman's 7-year-old sister, were on the bus at the time of the shooting, which appears to have been an accident.
Jordyn Alexander Howe, 15, was charged with manslaughter in the shooting and carrying a concealed firearm, authorities said. He waived his right to appear at a Wednesday morning hearing in juvenile court, where he was represented by a public defender.
Howe will remain at the Miami-Dade juvenile assessment center, a judge ruled. According to Miami-Dade Clerk of Courts spokeswoman Eunice Sigler, the state plans to prosecute Howe as an adult.
The judge set the next court date for 1:30 p.m. Dec. 11.
A telephone message left for his mother wasn't immediately returned.
Terry Chavez, a spokesperson for the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office, wouldn't comment on whether anyone else would face charges but said they're still investigating the shooting.
"It's very complicated, there are a lot of things left to take care of," Chavez said.
According to an arrest form, the children were on their way to school when Howe took the firearm out of his backpack and displayed it. The gun went off, hitting Guzman, a student at Palm Glades Preparatory Academy.
Guzman was airlifted to Miami Children's Hospital where she later died, police said. No other children were injured and Howe was immediately taken into custody.
During Wednesday's press conference, Ady DeJesus described her daughter as the "most wonderful girl in the whole wide world." She said her daughter was very smart, nice and happy.
Students and parents arriving at Palm Glades Wednesday morning remembered Guzman as a girl who got along with everybody.
"She was like a sister to me," said seventh-grader Daniel LaRosa "Nobody would ever get in a fight with her." He remembered Guzman as being funny and having trouble with division in their math class.
"I just know it's gonna be different. Like, I'm not seeing her anywhere else ... that's just a nightmare," LaRosa said. "I just know I gotta stay up and don't put my head down."
Henry Martinez, an eighth-grader at the school, said he didn't know Guzman but brought white balloons to school to release in her memory. "I care," he said.
"It's sad," said one father, who only gave his first name, Robert, as he dropped his daughter off at the school. He said it was hard to explain the shooting to his daughter.
At the site of the shooting, friends made a small memorial for Guzman, leaving flowers, candles, stuffed animals and messages for the teen.


Ayoze Perez plays the position Midfield, is 25 years old and 179cm tall, weights 66kg.
In the current club Newcastle United played 5 seasons, during this time he played 209 matches and scored 47 goals.
How many goals has Ayoze Perez scored this season?
In the current season Ayoze Perez scored 12 goals.
In the club he scored 12 goals ( Capital One, Premier League, FA Cup, Friendlies). Ayoze Perez this seasons has also noted 2 assists, played 4415 minutes, with 31 times he played game in first line.
Ayoze Perez shots an average of 0.31 goals per game in club competitions.
In the current season for Newcastle United Ayoze Perez gave a total of 53 shots, of which 27 were shots on goal. Passes completed Ayoze Perez is 78 percent.


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Family Chooses Homelessness Over Abandoning Pit Bull
By Jaime Lutz February 19, 2014
Carol Devia, shown here with her dog Rocco. (Courtesy of Bad Rap)
For the past year, the Devia family has chosen to be homeless rather than give up their beloved dog.
Carol Devia, her husband Peter and her sons Leandro and Christoffer own Camilla, a lab mix, and Rocco, a pit bull. Both are sweet, housetrained dogs, according to the family. But only one is keeping them from moving out of a car that they have been living out of in Walnut Creek, Calif.
"When landlords see Camilla, they have no problem with her. Everybody will take her," Carol Devia said. "But as soon as they see Rocco, they say 'Oh no.'"
Animal welfare advocates say this is part of a housing crisis for pit bull owners, with some landlords forcing families to choose between a roof over their heads and their beloved pup.
"It's not uncommon for people to say 'I can't take the dog to the shelter where it will be killed,'" said Donna Reynolds, the director of Pit Bull advocacy organization BAD RAP.
"What we're finding is our inbox is filled with people who say 'I'm about to go homeless, can you take my dog?'" she added.
The Devia family never expected to be in that situation until Carol and her husband were fired from their newspaper delivery job at the same time last year for a breach of security. Carol Devia said she had nothing to do with the breach and that she was terminated wrongfully.
When the family told their landlord what happened, they were evicted from their apartment, Devia said, noting their savings, credit and stability began dwindling rapidly. Worst of all, she said, they couldn't find a new place to live that would let them bring Rocco, the kind of dog that slept next to them every night.
"I can't find a place unless I give up my dog, and everyone tells me to, but I can't do that," Devia said. "We've had Camilla her whole life and Rocco her whole life."
The issue went viral last weekend, when the owner of a rescued pit bull took to Craigslist to find out the name of the dog's former owner, who abandoned her in a Manhattan apartment after being evicted.
The dog was underweight and had a few burns behind her ears in the shape of cigarette burns, according to the post. But Alex de Campi - the New Hampshire mother who wrote the post - said she has sympathy for the previous owner of the pit bull she calls "Cathy."
"These people could have found her on the street and taken her in," de Campi told ABC News. "She could have had three or four owners. She's not hand shy in any way, meaning she's not afraid of my hand, which would be an indication of abuse."
The reason she wrote the post, de Campi said, was in hopes of reaching the former owners to let them know that their old dog was safe and loved.
Cathy became "a 65-pound lapdog," as de Campi put it.
But Rocco was not always a model pit bull, Devia said. One time, when a Dachshund peeked his nose into Devia's yard, Rocco ran over to the dog and broke his snout, Devia recalled.
After the incident, the family had to go to court, take a class, and pay $500 for three years for a special dog license on top of a $200 per year insurance plan, she said.
The dog has been well-behaved ever since, Devia said, especially since he began going to classes at BAD RAP.
"We've noticed a huge difference in his behavior," she said. "He's like a totally different dog. He wants to meet everybody and lick everybody."
For now, Devia said her family spends a lot of time driving back and forth between wooded areas where the dogs can get exercise and parking lots where they can get Wi-Fi and make food with their Crock-Pot plugged into the cigarette lighter. They're working new jobs delivering newspapers at night and sleeping in their car during the day, she said.
For families who are struggling to find housing that will accept their dog, Reynolds suggest they ask friends for help, post on Craigslist, and talk to rescue organizations. They can also consider getting an insurance policy on the dog, so any liability doesn't fall to the landlord - though so far, that hasn't helped the Devia family.
"It was hard in the beginning but then you kind of consign yourself to it and say okay," Devia said. "I'm alive, I'm working. I hit bottom, so now I've been there and now the only place I can go is up."


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Q: How to reference a theme attribute in a style? I've got a following problem. I want to customize appearance of row in a list, but exception is thrown during inflating.
piece of code in style.xml
<style name="AppTheme.Main">
    <item name="item_shadowColor">#000000</item>
</style>
<style name="item_label">
    <item name="android:shadowColor">?attr/item_shadowColor</item>
</style>

attr.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <attr name="item_shadowColor" format="color" />
</resources>

list_item.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="horizontal" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@id/title"
        style="@style/item_label"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"/>

</LinearLayout>

And the exception
FATAL EXCEPTION: main
 android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #7: Error inflating class <unknown>
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:606)
    at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneLayoutInflater.onCreateView(PhoneLayoutInflater.java:56)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.onCreateView(LayoutInflater.java:653)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:678)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:739)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:489)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:396)
    at ru.mts.goodok.adapter.CategoryListAdapter.getView(CategoryListAdapter.java:30)
    at android.widget.AbsListView.obtainView(AbsListView.java:2052)
    at android.widget.ListView.makeAndAddView(ListView.java:1820)
    at android.widget.ListView.fillDown(ListView.java:672)
    at android.widget.ListView.fillFromTop(ListView.java:732)
    at android.widget.ListView.layoutChildren(ListView.java:1673)
    at android.widget.AbsListView.onLayout(AbsListView.java:1882)
    at android.view.View.layout(View.java:11425)
    at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4232)
    at android.widget.RelativeLayout.onLayout(RelativeLayout.java:925)
    at android.view.View.layout(View.java:11425)
    at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4232)
    at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:431)
    at android.view.View.layout(View.java:11425)
    at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4232)
    at android.widget.LinearLayout.setChildFrame(LinearLayout.java:1628)
    at android.widget.LinearLayout.layoutVertical(LinearLayout.java:1486)
    at android.widget.LinearLayout.onLayout(LinearLayout.java:1399)
    at android.view.View.layout(View.java:11425)
    at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4232)
    at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:431)
    at android.view.View.layout(View.java:11425)
    at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4232)
    at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:1516)
    at android.view.ViewRootImpl.handleMessage(ViewRootImpl.java:2505)
    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4945)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:784)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:551)
    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
 Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.constructNative(Native Method)
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:417)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:586)
    ... 39 more
 Caused by: java.lang.NumberFormatException: Invalid int: "?2130771972"
    at java.lang.Integer.invalidInt(Integer.java:138)
    at java.lang.Integer.parse(Integer.java:375)
    at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:366)
    at com.android.internal.util.XmlUtils.convertValueToInt(XmlUtils.java:123)
    at android.content.res.TypedArray.getInt(TypedArray.java:254)
    at android.widget.TextView.<init>(TextView.java:829)
    at android.widget.TextView.<init>(TextView.java:489)
    ... 42 more

What am I doing wrong and how could I solve this problem?

A: Try to create the themes.xml file and add the below lines in it.
Themes.xml
<style name="Theme">
   <item name="item_shadowColor">@style/item_label</item>
</style>

attrs.xml
Change the the format="reference" in your attrs.xml file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <attr name="item_shadowColor" format="reference" />
</resources>

styles.xml
<style name="AppTheme.Main">
    <item name="item_shadowColor">#000000</item>
</style>

<style name="item_label">
    <item name="android:shadowColor">#F240FF</item>
</style>

Then after define your style to the TextView as below:
<TextView
    android:id="@id/title"
    style="@style/item_label"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"/>

A: The problem has been solved. I used application context to create adapter, when I changed context to activity the problem disappeared.

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