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CUSTOMIZED PROGRAMS.
EACH PROGRAM IS A UNIQUE EXPERIENCE
Why Learn Portuguese
Portuguese is the sixth most spoken language in the world. After English and Spanish, it is the third most spoken European language, and spoken on four different continents. Brazil is the fifth most populous country and the sixth largest economy in the world. Portuguese, along with Spanish, is the fastest growing language of Europe, and, according to UNESCO, it is the language with the highest growth potential as an international communication tool in Southern Africa and South America.
FACULTY-LED EDUCATION PROGRAMS
At ICR Brasil learning Portuguese goes far beyond the classroom. Our students experience life in another culture, where they incorporate language learning in every aspect of their lives. ICR Brasil offers a variety of study-abroad programs and Portuguese courses to foreigners that can be tailored from survival Portuguese to complex studies in language, and literature, always enriched by local Brazilian culture.
LANGUAGE AND CULTURE PROGRAM
More than just Portuguese. Understand the Brazilian culture.
PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE COURSE:
Our Portuguese classes are taught by well-trained experienced teachers. Students can develop their language skills while being fully immersed in cultural experiences. ICR Portuguese courses are designed according to the needs of each program and institution and they can be basically divided into two types:
Academic Portuguese Course
Students will learn how to use the language in different academic and routine situations through a selective review of grammar, vocabulary-building exercises, readings and discussion of contemporary topics. It is recommended for students who wish to attend courses at a Brazilian University and to receive credit hours if required by their home university.
Survival Portuguese Course
Students will learn how to use basic language skills in everyday situations. Our aim is to help them improve fundamental communication skills by tackling essential structures and relevant vocabulary. Survival Portuguese is often paired with cultural programs where language is not the focus.
BRAZILIAN CULTURE COURSE:
Savor the food, art, history, politics, and traditions of our culture.
Through a series of lectures (in Portuguese or English) by prominent local citizens and scholars, students will learn about Brazilian history, music, political and socio-economic related issues. Field trips and tours are integral to the course. Students can visit museums, NGOs, go sightseeing, and visit famous Bahian historical towns and tourist destinations. Our staff can also help students find ways to pursue their interests, be it Capoeira, Afro-Brazilian dance, Brazilian music, percussion, Candomblé religion or other areas of interest.
WINTER AND SPRING BREAK PROGRAMS
Be fearless and spend your break beyond your borders.
Students will gain a better understanding of the role of higher education in Brazil and the educational needs of low-income and first generation students, particularly Afro-Brazilians. Students will also acquire a greater understanding of how race, socioeconomic status, and gender impact educational and social opportunities for Brazilian youth.
This program will introduce students to the music, culture, and educational systems of Brazil. Students participate in cultural and educational activities, music presentations, percussion and dance workshops. No previous music or language experience is required.
DANCING IN BRAZIL
Students will be introduced to the richness of Brazilian dance, exploring the power of dance and performance with a particular focus on Afro-Brazilian dances, songs, and rhythms for the Orixás and the Candomblé tradition, as well as the practice of Capoeira. Our aim is to provide students with the chance to perform and study with Brazilian dance masters and engage in cultural exchanges with Brazilian dancers.
We make it possible for you to create the perfect customized study abroad program for your students.
Our courses can be designed or adapted to meet the specific needs of any given academic program. ICR Brasil has been working with institutions such as Ohio State University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Kansas, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and Georgia State University to create customized programs in different areas, such as Collective Health, Architecture and Engineering, Globalization and Afro-Brazilian culture, as well as Cross Cultural Psychology, among others.
SERVICE LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
Get involved in a local community, and do something fun and exciting!
When students leave the classroom to volunteer, they gain a well-rounded education. Beyond the classroom walls, they'll practice the language, find different perspectives, and be inspired to learn about new ways of thinking. Volunteering abroad is a decision that will have an impact on the rest of their lives. When students volunteer through ICR Brasil, our team will ensure that they are matched to an NGO or community which will allow them to make a valuable contribution to the host community.
"Instituto Clara Ramos cannot be in better hands than those of Clara herself who embodies "todas as praias" when it comes to logistics, budgeting, human relations, student curricular and cultural satisfaction, as well as competent personnel management. Our Study Abroad students from the University of Texas at Austin, not only return better fluent in Portuguese and better immersed in Brazilian culture, they also gain a richer knowledge of what the future holds for them in global relations after enjoying Bahian warmth, and above all, the human experience."
Niyi Afolabi
Professor, African & African Diaspora Studies Dept. UT Austin
"The Dance Brazil trip, which I lead with dancers from The Ohio State University, was a life-changing experience for all involved. Our activities around Salvador and Bahia were infused with opportunities to delve deeply into several forms of Brazilian dance and music, as well as chances to interact with dancers and dance educators in the various communities of Salvador. Clara Ramos thought of every detail and we are forever enlightened because of her expertise, compassion, and enthusiasm for cross-cultural learning. I have traveled extensively throughout my career and Clara is hands-down the most efficient director and our students remember her dearly."
Daniel Roberts
Professor in Dance and Director of the Study Abroad Program in Bahia
The Ohio State University School of Music
"Working with Clara Ramos was key to guarantee the success of our program. Her detailed coordination of logistics, the quality and warmth of homestay placements, and her deep love of local culture and community allowed our students to concentrate on academics, learning the language, and above all, living a transformative experience. I recommend working with ICR-Brasil without hesitation."
Isabel Velázquez
Faculty leader and program director – Through the Lens of Language: Brazilian History, Culture and Society
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
"I have worked with Clara Ramos over the past 3 years bringing students from the University of Connecticut to Salvador, Brazil on a Spring break study abroad program. Clara has a wealth of knowledge about the culture and history of Salvador and the Afro-Brazilian residents who live in the state of Bahia. In particular, the tour schedule she created for my group was excellent and exceeded expectations. My students were thoroughly satisfied by the services Clara provided as they would come back to university and tell other students to attend this study abroad program. I recommend using ICR Brasil as this company will provide an exciting, yet professional study abroad experience for your institution."
Erik M. Hines
Former associate professor and UCONN Spring break Program Director 2017- 2019
"Perhaps the most important line from the Ohio State Alma Mater is: "Time and Change with surely show, how firm they friendship, O-HI-O." Although the text is intended to promote the long-term relationship between the university and its graduates, it is also the perfect phrase to describe our relationship with Clara Ramos. The past few years have presented great changes to our countries, schools, and educational organizations, but despite unexpected adventures, Clara Ramos has been a world-class professional facilitator. She has an uncanny sense of what students need academically, cultural, and personally. Every student I have brought to Brazil has experienced a custom tailored Brazilian Experience. Clara is a cultural ambassador for Brazil, Bahia, and of course Salvador! No detail is overlooked, no need to great, Clara is a tremendous asset to field of international education. We are so fortunate to be working with her again this year!"
David Hedgecoth
Professor in Music and Director of The Brazilian Experience Program
"In 2008, I came to Salvador with a FLAS fellowship for the study of advanced Portuguese. I spent six weeks studying with my instructor, Graça, and engaging in all of the lectures, workshops and activities that Clara Ramos organized for the exchange program groups. I had already began my research on popular culture and archives of the African diaspora in Brazil and the Caribbean and found the supplementary activities highly relevant. Following my participation in the program, I knew that I must maintain my connection with Clara and hoped one day I could return to initiate a collaboration. Following my hire as a tenure-track faculty member of Colorado College, I proposed a summer in Brazil program to my new colleagues and contacted Clara to start a new phase of our relationship. Since 2014, I have brought five groups of students to Salvador to gain a deep immersive experience in Portuguese language and Bahian culture (through homestays, intensive classes and integral workshops and visits to local organizations). What Clara brings to the organization and development of this program is a profound attention to detail in the organization of visits and programming and an uncomparable passion for cultural exchange and individualized work with students. ICR Brasil most definitely transforms the lives of its students!"
Dr. Naomi Pueo Wood she/her(s)
Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Department Chair at Colorado College and Director of the Study Abroad Program in Bahia
Dr. Naomi Pueo Wood
"I have led summer and winter break study abroad programs to Brazil since 2005, first as a faculty member at the University of Illinois and then at the University of Kansas. Since then, I have taken students to Salvador and worked with Clara Ramos, initially at ACBEU, the Brazil-U.S. Binational Center, and after that at the Instituto Clara Ramos – Brasil. My students' experience has always been exceptional. Clara and her crew literally take care of everything for you. Our students have always exceeded their expectations in terms of language learning, often surpassing two semesters of intensive study at their home institutions. They have also often undergone a transformative personal experience, given the special relationship that they develop with Brazilian culture, the city of Salvador, the ICR staff, and the Brazilian families with whom they live. Clara works with the best foreign language instructors in Salvador. She also handpicks the families for our students. Students are greeted with enthusiasm and affection since day one and take the love they receive during their program back home with them. Many decide to include Portuguese and Brazil in their careers after studying abroad with ICR. It always impresses me Clara's ability to tailor the programs to each institution, her efforts to carefully attend to students' individual needs, and her competence to foresee any kind of possible unexpected situation and how to react appropriately when they happen. Being originally from Salvador myself, I am extremely demanding in what I would like my students to experience in my hometown and the takeaways they will have from their time in town. Only ICR Brasil provides that. "
Luciano Tosta
Associate Professor of Brazilian Literature and Culture, Acting Director & Director of Graduate Studies, Center for Global and International Studies
"In celebrating our fifth year of partnership, I can say that working with Clara Ramos and the staff and team she has developed has had a tremendous impact on our program and students. When working with Clara and her team, I know that we will always have the highest quality service, we will adapt to unforeseen challenges and our students will be allowed to explore and experience the history and heritage that is so unique to Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The students also feel that they have another mentor and program director to talk to which is an important aspect of our partnership. Clara and Lucianne, and the team of host families, tour guides, transportation companies work together to make the students feel welcome, to be immersed in the culture and language and that really enhances the formal academic training in public health. As a former student who came to Salvador to learn Portuguese in a program coordinated by Clara, I am forever grateful for the opportunity to inspire other students. The work of developing and coordinating a study abroad program is intense and immense, and it would be impossible to do this program without Clara and her team."
Christine Stauber
Associate Professor, Department of Population Health Sciences, School of Public Health, and Program Director of the Brazil Study Abroad Program
Av. Sete de Setembro, 2792, Ladeira da Barra, Instituto Cervantes - Salvador – Bahia - Brasil
ZIP Code 40130.000
+55 71 98811.3524


Welcome to the experimental Gruen Movement Map... a graphical front-end to the Gruen Movement Catalog.
If you are trying to match your movement to one on the diagram, be sure and hold your movement dial-down and stem right. That is the orientation of ALL of the movements in this chart, and generally speaking on this site.
Thumbprints are the small graphic in some of the movement squares bottom right corners. It's black with 4 shaded areas.
You will also find a graphic representing the wheel train bridge shown in YELLOW. In it you'll find holes in the locations you will find jewel holes or screw holes in your watch's train bridge.
You movement should also match the text-data shown with the movements which include the number of Jewels, Number of Adjustments, Precision or Guild quality stamps.
Some of the movements you can click on to pull up detailed data (430, 431, 435, 440, 330), with the goal of providing detailed data on ALL of these movements.
Tip - For the best experience, click the graphic in the bottom right corner that looks like a square. This will put the drawing in Full-Screen-Mode.
Enjoy! I hope you find this useful.
You can download a PDF of this map using these links.
This information on Gruen Movements is provided free of charge to you, the Gruen collector. It took great effort and great expense to collect this data. Please don't simply scrape my chart for data and post it elsewhere. That's not asking too much, right? I appreciate the support I get from the Gruen community! Thank you for your encouragement.


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I was really inspired by this story in the Huffington Post about the funeral of James McConnell.
When this man died, alone in a nursing home, it was looking like he'd have nobody at his funeral, except maybe one or two of the home's care staff. I've been at funerals like that myself.
The local vicar, Reverend Bob Mason didn't want to preside over such a sad occasion, and began to campaign over facebook for people to attend the funeral. Thanks to his work well over 200 attended, including many other veterans of the Royal Marines, who gave him a far more fitting send-off.
Here's the radical question: What if someone had done the same thing a year earlier, when McConnell was alone and unvisited in his nursing home? Maybe 200 people wouldn't have responded. Maybe not even 20. What if 2 people had responded, and visited him maybe once a month each? That would have given him a fortnightly visit to look forward to in the last year of his life.
What if we did this with many more of the people living isolated lives? What if we started thinking that connecting isolated people up with other people was as important as giving them their medication or a wash?
Is it a daft question? What do you think?


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Patriots Offseason Coverage
Patriots Training Camp Storylines: Which undrafted cornerback has the best chance of making the team?
Alec and Rich break down the Patriots CB position
By Rich Hill and Alec Shane Jul 28, 2016, 2:00pm EDT
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The Patriots were extremely fortunate that neither Logan Ryan, nor Malcolm Butler suffered a serious injury in 2015. They provided an excellent tandem, with Ryan covering the larger opposing receiver, while Butler locked down opposing #1 targets on a weekly basis. This year, New England focused on filling in the depth at the position. Justin Coleman returns for his first full offseason in New England (he was a preseason addition), 2015 7th round pick Darryl Roberts returns from the injured reserve, while the Patriots added veteran E.J. Biggers, drafted Cyrus Jones in the 2nd round, and added a trio of high quality preferred free agents after the draft in Jonathan Jones, Cre'von LeBlanc, and V'Angelo Bentley- all three undrafted because of their lack of height.
Assuming the Patriots carry five cornerbacks, and that Butler, Ryan, and Cyrus Jones are locks, who do you envision taking the final two cornerback slots?
The defensive back training camp battle is a preseason staple year in and year out in New England; anybody with even a casual interest in the Patriots knows that Belichick loves to stockpile an absurd amount of cornerbacks and then lets them battle it out in training camp. This year sees us with about as close to starter locks as you can get with Ryan and Butler, but after that it's anybody's race. Darryl Roberts had a solid preseason before going on IR last year, and Justin Coleman was more than serviceable when healthy, so I feel like those two have the inside track on those last two roster spots. That said, our #1 corner right now was a camp body his rookie season, so who knows who is going to step up and shine.
When we were talking about structuring the defense for 2016, you theorized that the Patriots might utilize a 4-2 Nickel base for this year, given the personnel at the linebacker and defensive line; if true, slot corner is going to be an extremely important position going forward. Who is your #1 choice for nickelback (and to be completely clear, I DO NOT mean the band)?
Well, when I look at this photograph of the secondary it makes me laugh, I really think that rookie Cyrus Jones has the best chance of seeing serious time. I think that Roberts is better suited as a sideline corner, just like Butler and Ryan, and I think Jones is more talented than Coleman. His change-of-direction ability is incredible and he's still just scratching the surface of his ability.
That said, I really think this secondary is fairly versatile. While Jones might be the best slot corner, Butler, Ryan, and Coleman can all play inside if they have to and that's ignoring the versatility of Patrick Chung.
A name that I didn't mention is undrafted free agent signing Jonathan Jones, who stood out during offseason camps. I think he could be another impact player. It seems like the Patriots enjoy adding an undrafted cornerback on a regular basis, with Coleman and Butler the most recent two. Jones, Cre'von LeBlanc, and V'Angelo Bentley all have a chance of making the squad- so who is your favorite, and who is the odd man out to make space for them?
If we're going by name alone, then it's V'Angelo Bentley by a mile. He's also the tallest of the three, by a full inch, and I'm not sure if there's an obscure NFL rule that says you can't carry more than one 22 year old, 5'9", 190lb rookie DB on the roster, so being 5'10" might give Bentley the edge he needs.
Editor's note: the Patriots list Bentley at 5'10, with Jones and LeBlanc at 5'9. Bentley measures 5'8 1/4 per NFLDraftScout services, with Jones at 5'9 1/8 and LeBlanc at 5'9 7/8. Not sure why the Patriots have Bentley so much taller.
From a skill standpoint, though, I think it's Jones - he's a former sprinter and has great closing speed. It's going to be interesting how the coaches evaluate these guys this year, as they are likely going to be spending a good chunk of time defending passes thrown by Jimmy Garoppolo as opposed to Tom Brady; do they put more weight into your play if you pick off Tommy B vs. Jimmy G? What if a DB looks great against Garoppolo but struggles against Brady? Or vice versa? How do you best measure those intangibles? The good news in we don't have to wait too much longer to find out.

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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF FRENCH
Ph.D., French, Yale University
What I'm teaching:
Advanced French
What I'm researching:
"My research focuses on contemporary Francophone literature. I specifically look at regional identities of languages and culture within France and in particular Brittany, a peninsula in the northwestern part of France, and how Breton literature and culture have persisted into the 20th and 21st centuries, despite the French Republic's efforts to suppress regional languages. I also study travel writing in the Francophone world and transnational literary connections between Brittany, the Caribbean, North Africa, and Quebec."
What drew me to Lafayette:
"I knew I wanted to be at a place where teaching is really important. At some schools teaching is secondary to research and for me, being in the classroom is the most rewarding thing that I do. I have to say I was also struck by the Marquis de Lafayette. I thought, 'Oh, a French name.' Well there you go."
What students can expect:
"They can expect to be making a lot of connections between contemporary French culture and American culture. I love to bring in global issues to my class, whether they be political or cultural. I talk a lot about immigration, identity politics; I like talking about hot topics to make class more engaging for students. I use a lot of different forms of media. I love teaching with film and podcasts. I try and keep it really interactive."
What I'm holding:
"This is a picture that I took when I was about 15. I went to an immersive language camp through Concordia College in Minnesota. This is Voyageurs National Park. We were pretending to be French fur traders and went on a canoe trip. I've kept this photo with me for a long time because it reminds me of my journey with French. When I took it, I could barely speak the language, and I remember being overwhelmed and confused the entire time I was at camp. I've come a long way since then. I not only lived in France, but I traveled to Morocco, Burkina Faso, and Canada. It reminds me of all the places French has taken me. It also reminds me to put myself in my students' shoes. They might be really overwhelmed and confused, but I like to think I'm taking them on a journey that leads to wherever they want to go."
What's not on my CV:
"I have the evidence to prove I do Cross-Fit. I was at the gymnastics class last night in Easton and totally ripped my hands open. I've been doing Cross Fit for seven years. I actually competed with one of the Paris teams. We went to Copenhagen for the Cross-Fit European Regionals competition in 2014. I'm very active physically. I like to swim and be outside. I have injuries now, so I do a lot of yoga, and I'm more interested in biking. I just stopped by Genesis Bicycles. I'm looking to hit some trails around here.
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We all know what it means to fly, so if we have to pull out wings for that, we have to be ready at a due time. Please! Don't get it mixed up, I'm not talking about you having wings, No. I'm talking about you making a travel by means of a flight (Airways).
Before you engage yourself in the flight mode there are vital things to consider, especially since you're in Nigeria. Booking a domestic flight might prompt you going online and registering on an airline's website. Having access to most airway's flight booking portals and other flight agencies online, the process is quite easy and seamless, however, there are certain difficulties travelers face if they do not countercheck certain details before hitting the "Book Your Flight" button.
You have to know that most states in Nigeria have just one airport, which makes it important to know where exactly the airport is located within the state, as to rest assured if going to your location by air is the best option.
Ensure you have your first night booked and the address is written down before you go ahead and book the flight, this saves you a lot of hassles.
To book a domestic flight all you to do is to enter your Identification Card number, but for those of you that don't have a valid ID card and you wish to book a local flight you can use your registered driver license, please note that your driver's license will have to be valid for the dates you intend to fly domestically.
First thing first, all you need to do is find the available flight because not all airlines go to every destination, another thing to consider is that they have different fares for the same destination. To that effect, it is important to always check prices on a different available flight before your booking.
Another hint about this is that weekday flight is mostly cheaper than weekend flight. Also, a 6 am flight might look great, considering it is always the cheapest flight of the day, but check other factors out before booking: how feasible is the journey to the airport at that time?
After you've verified for the available flight and its price the next act is to book your flight ticket If you have decided to travel in flight, not forgetting to confirm if there is any seat available to proceed on booking your flight and getting your ticket.
Most at times, you don't get a ticket for the day you plan to travel, so due to that, I will advise you to you book your flight as early as possible. This gives you upper-hands: first, you have better vacancies as to purchase a flight ticket.
Before leaving your home, office or anywhere you might find yourself, make sure you have all the necessary documents in place. Getting now to the airport, you have to follow the regulations and rules set apart for passengers and sometime it might take time.
So make sure you have enough time and an hour early will be perfect. If your luggage is going with you, try everything possible for the weight not to exceed the airline's acceptable weight load. Then if the case turns out the other way round, you will have to pay for your luggage (that's if you exceed the normal weight). Make use of the extra free opportunity of taking some additional stuff with you on the plane with a petty bag.
Once you get to the airport terminal, don't wait for anyone neither should you go sitting down What you need do next is to check in. Simply saying that you have to show your ticket and your form of Identifications with necessary travel document. The check-in officer will give you a boarding pass and receipt of luggage.
After following the above step, the next thing to do is to present yourself at the departure lounge where you will be subjected to security checks. You may have to put your phone on airplane mode or put it off, jacket, laptop outside for inspection. The security officer will stamp your carry-on and boarding pass if you successfully meet the requirement. After you've finalized the checkup, you will need to wait and as you're waiting, pay attention to the boarding announcement.
After you must have been signed in, search out for your seat number which is printed on your boarding pass, quite true that some minor aircraft may not have seating arrangement, so you can seat anywhere. The cabin crew will close the doors when all passengers are on board.
Before takeoff, they will pass out vital safety flight information. There will be some signals for seatbelt and prohibition of smoking. You are meant to sit tight on your seat.
Remain seated until the plane stops and it's announced by the cabin crew: safe to leave the plane; you have to wait for the signal of seat belt light turning off as well. You can then exit the plane.
I hope the above pieces of information will go a long way helping you out with your first flight booking plans. Don't hesitate to comment below if in need for more guidelines. Also, feel free to share this post if you did love it.
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Health workers across England were set to join a four-hour walkout over pay on Monday of next week. The strike, due to start at 7am, will involve up to half a million workers.
The Unison and Unite unions announced the action last month.
Health workers in the GMB union joined it last week after 78 percent voted for strikes and 91 percent for action short of strikes. The Royal Society of Radiographers has not yet named a strike date though 53 percent voted to strike in its ballot.
And the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) will strike for the first time in its 133-year history (see below).
The action comes as the crisis in the NHS has become a key political issue in the run-up to next year's general election.
Every week brings a new story about how cuts and privatisation are hitting workers and patients.
Medical groups and charities wrote a letter to the Independent newspaper last weekend. They described "a system buckling under the twin crises of rising demand and flat lining budgets are everywhere".
Politicians are jostling to grandstand over the NHS.
Labour's shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said the general election would be a "day of reckoning on the NHS" for the Tories and Lib Dems.
Meanwhile bosses continue to profit. Private health care firms with links to top Tory politicians won NHS contracts worth £1.5 billion in the last two years.
Yorkshire ambulance bosses were awarded pay rises of up to 30 percent.
Health workers are angry at health secretary Jeremy Hunt's refusal to give workers even a 1 percent pay rise. But this dispute is about more than just pay.
This sort of pressure is forcing many health workers to leave, adding to existing staff shortages.
"But the strikes show that there is an alternative to individuals leaving the health service—taking collective action to defend it", added Gwyneth.
That's why health workers are encouraging people to join their picket lines for a "Breakfast for the NHS".
Trade unionists and campaigners have been doing workplace collections for the strikers.
Next week's strike is a good start. Now unions should call more coordinated action. This could boost workers' confidence to fight.
The Tories are on the offensive—but united, workers can beat them.
Midwifery lecturer Sarah Davies spoke to Socialist Worker about the crisis facing midwives.
The changes are also having an impact on pregnant women.


I invite you to add this lead, 10 minute sivasana to the end of your practice. I guide you through this calming final pose, for all of your cells, nerves, muscles and joints, to benefit from yoga. The more calm and quiet you can keep your mind, the more beneficial. Lots of people skip Sivasana, because they think it isn't doing anything. I assure you, Sivasana is one of the most important, beautiful, rewarding gifts you can give to yourself after class. Completely let go, to allow the spirituality of yoga to infuse your entire being.


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Evelyn A. Green
February 6, 1929 - June 7, 2020
Evelyn A. Green, age 91, of Lansdowne, VA, passed away on Sunday, June 7, 2020 with her daughter close by her side. She is survived by her daughter, Katherine Kloc of Ashburn, VA: grandchildren Andrew Kloc, Brittany Kloc and Kristen Berrier and nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband of 60 years, George Green (2016), a son, Daniel (2005) and a brother Robert Livesay, Jr. Born and raised in Southern California, she was the daughter of the late Robert Livesay and the late Erma Dillon Livesay. Evelyn and her family lived in Southern and Northern California, Oregon, Washington, Virginia and Maryland before retiring to Leesburg, Virginia. While working most of her adult life, including owning a small business with her husband, Evelyn enjoyed volunteering at her residence building, schools, hospitals and at the polls for many election cycles. A lifetime lover of animals of all kinds, she always had a dog close by whether it was hers or one of her "grand dogs". A private service will be held by the immediate family.
Evelyn A. Green, age 91, of Lansdowne, VA, passed away on Sunday, June 7, 2020 with her daughter close by her side. She is survived by her daughter, Katherine Kloc of Ashburn, VA: grandchildren Andrew Kloc, Brittany Kloc and Kristen Berrier... View Obituary & Service Information
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Avard Tennyson Fairbanks was active/lived in Utah. Avard Fairbanks is known for sculptor-historic figure, portrait.
The following is from the artist's website:http://www.avardfairbanks.com/ The website was created by Jefferson Fairbanks, PhD, grandson of the sculptor. The contents of the website are called "A tribute to the sculptor Avard Fairbanks - his life and his art and a complete list of his sculpture" by Eugene Fairbanks, his second son of Bellingham, Washington.
'Avard Fairbanks - A Short Biography of the Sculptor' adapted from sections in "A Sculptor's Testimony in Bronze and Stone" by Eugene F. Fairbanks.
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how long has it been since i was temp banned for a week?
Six days. Come back tomorrow.
wish the posts were still there so i could verify that.
I recorded your Ball 3 on May 8th. Deal with it.
may 9th, may 10th, may 11th, may 12th, may 13, may 14th, may 15, may 16th.
Doesn't a week = 7 days?
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India Ranks 63 In Ease Of Doing Business: Factor-wise Breakdown Here
India has moved to 63rd position by jumping 14 places on the World Bank's ease of doing business ranking. Here's the factorwise breakdown of India's improvement
Written By Jay Pandya | Mumbai | Updated On: October 24, 2019 11:17 IST
India has moved to 63rd position among 190 countries by jumping 14 places on the World Bank's ease of doing business ranking released on Thursday, October 24. The country has achieved this on the back of multiple economic reforms by the Narendra Modi government which includes the government's flagship 'Make in India' scheme. The Ease of Doing Business Ranking is based on 10 parameters relating to starting and doing business in a country. Here's how India has improved in each of the parameters compared to the previous World Bank report.
India has improved its rankings in 7 of the 10 sub-categories
The first parameter is starting a business in which India has moved up a place to 136th rank as compared to 137th in the previous report. The second parameter deals with construction permits in which India has improved a lot as it stands on the 27th position as compared to 52nd last year. In getting electricity, India has slipped to 27th position from 24th position in 2019. In the parameter of registering property, India has improved slightly and moved on to the 154th position from previous 166th position. The country had the best performance in resolving insolvency where it jumped by 56 places to become the 52nd easiest place to address bankruptcy. India's third-best improvement was in trading across borders, where it rose 12 places to come in at the 68th spot.
The World Bank noted that the country needed to do more in areas such as enforcing contracts and registering property where India ranks a dismal 163rd and 154th globally. India also remained among the top-30 nations in the same three categories as last year — getting electricity, securing credit and protecting minority investors. The report ranked India top among the South Asian nations. In the neighbourhood, China has moved up to 31st position from the 46th rank while Pakistan rose from 136th place to become the 108th easiest to do business in the nation.
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World Bank commends reform efforts
In its 'Doing Business' 2020 report, the World Bank commended the reform efforts undertaken by the country acknowledging the measures that were taken "given the size of India's economy". "This is the third year in a row that India makes to top 10 in Doing Business, which is a success very few countries enjoy consecutively. Without exception, the other countries that have done this are very small, population-wise, and homogeneous", Simeon Djankov, Director of Development Economics at the World Bank told PTI in an interview. "India is the first country of its type to achieve that. It has jumped this year by 14 positions", he said. Apart from India, the other countries on this year's 'top 10 performers' list are Saudi Arabia (62), Jordan (75), Togo (97), Bahrain (43), Tajikistan (106), Pakistan (108), Kuwait (83), China (31) and Nigeria (131).
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Pope mourns Italian journalist killed in Gaza Strip
By Francis X. Rocca • Catholic News Service • Posted August 13, 2014
ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT TO SEOUL, South Korea (CNS) — Greeting reporters accompanying him to Korea Aug. 13, Pope Francis mourned an Italian video journalist killed earlier the same day in the Gaza Strip and urged journalists to serve as messengers of peace.
The pope listened with a bowed head and grave expression as Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, recounted the fate of Simone Camilli, who worked for The Associated Press.
Camilli and a freelance Palestinian translator, Ali Shehda Abu Afash, were killed along with three Palestinian policemen who were attempting to defuse unexploded ordnance left over from Israeli-Hamas fighting. Four other people, including an AP photographer, were badly injured.
Pope Francis then led the journalists in 30 seconds of silent prayer for Camilli.
"These are the consequences of war, that's the way it is," he said afterward.
"May your words always help unite us with the world," the pope told about 70 journalists who accompanied him on the flight to South Korea. "I implore you, always send this message of peace, try to give a word of peace."
The pope promised journalists that he would hold a news conference during his Aug. 18 flight back to Rome, continuing his practice established on previous international trips.
"David will go into the lion's den," he said with a smile. "They don't bite, right?"
During his Aug. 14-18 visit to South Korea, the pope will celebrated a Mass for reconciliation between North and South Korea, beatify 124 Korean martyrs and participate in events related to Asian Youth Day.
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Bust-A-Move - Super Nintendo SNES system
This game can be played also in a version for DOS. We are working on the others.
box cover Game title: Bust-A-Move
Genre: Puzzle Mode: Multiplayer
Design: Shōji Takahashi, Yuji Koga, Kazuhiko Sugiyama, ...
Music: Kazuki Umino
Game size: 267 kB
Puzzle Bobble, also known as Bust-a-Move in North America, is a 1994 tile-matching arcade puzzle video game for one or two players created by Taito Corporation. It is based on Taito's popular 1986 arcade game Bubble Bobble, featuring characters and themes from that game. Its characteristically cute Japanese animation and music, along with its play mechanics and level designs, made it successful as an arcade title and spawned several sequels and ports to home gaming systems.
Two different versions of the original game were released. Puzzle Bobble was originally released in Japan only in June 1994 by Taito Corporation, running on Taito's B System hardware (with the preliminary title 'Bubble Buster'). Then, 6 months later in December, the international Neo Geo version of Puzzle Bobble was released. It was almost identical aside from being in stereo and having some different sound effects and translated text.
When set to the US region, the Neo Geo version displays the alternative title 'Bust a Move' and features anti-drugs and anti-littering messages in the title sequence. The Bust-a-Move title was used for all subsequent games in the series in the United States and Canada, as well as for some (non-Taito published) console releases in Europe.
At the start of each round, the rectangular playing arena contains a prearranged pattern of coloured 'bubbles'. (These are actually referred to in the translation as 'balls'; however, they were clearly intended to be bubbles, since they pop, and are taken from Bubble Bobble.) At the bottom of the screen, the player controls a device called a 'pointer', which aims and fires bubbles up the screen. The colour of bubbles fired is randomly generated and chosen from the colors of bubbles still left on the screen.
The fired bubbles travel in straight lines (possibly bouncing off the side walls of the arena), stopping when they touch other bubbles or reach the top of the arena. If a bubble touches identically-colored bubbles, forming a group of three or more, those bubbles—as well as any bubbles hanging from them—are removed from the field of play, and points are awarded.
After every few shots, the 'ceiling' of the playing arena drops downwards slightly, along with all the bubbles stuck to it. The number of shots between each drop of the ceiling is influenced by the number of bubble colors remaining. The closer the bubbles get to the bottom of the screen, the faster the music plays and if they cross the line at the bottom then the game is over.
The objective of the game is to clear all the bubbles from the arena without any bubble crossing the bottom line. Bubbles will fire automatically if the player remains idle. After clearing the arena, the next round begins with a new pattern of bubbles to clear. The game consists of 32 levels.
As with many popular arcade games, experienced players (who can complete the game relatively easily) become much more interested in the secondary challenge of obtaining a high score (which involves a lot more skill and strategy). Puzzle Bobble caters to this interest very well, featuring an exponential scoring system which allows extremely high scores to be achieved.
'Popped' bubbles (that is, bubbles of the same color which disappear) are worth 10 points each. However, dropped bubbles (that is, bubbles that were hanging from popped bubbles), are worth far more: one dropped bubble scores 20 points; two score 40; three score 80. This figure continues doubling for each bubble dropped, up to 17 or more bubbles which scores 1,310,720 points. It is possible to achieve this maximum on most rounds (sometimes twice or more), resulting in a potential total score of 30 million and beyond.
Bonus points are also awarded for completing a round quickly. The maximum 50,000-point bonus is awarded for clearing a round in 5 seconds or less; this bonus then drops down to zero over the next minute, after which no bonus is awarded.
There are no rounds in the two player game. Both players have an arena each (both visible on screen) and an identical arrangement of colored bubbles in each arena. When a player removes a large group (four bubbles or more) some of those removed are transferred to the opponent's arena, usually delaying their efforts to remove all the bubbles from their individual arena. In some versions, the two player game can also be played by one player against a computer opponent.
The characters and theme of the game are based on the 1986 platform arcade game Bubble Bobble. An arrangement of the original Bubble Bobble BGM is played in the game's end credits. The two dinosaurs operating the pointer are called Bub and Bob (or Bubblun and Bobblun in Japan). Their graphics and animation are based directly on the original Bubble Bobble, only larger (very similar to Bubble Symphony which was released less than a month later). Less obvious is the fact that Puzzle Bobble also features all the enemies from Bubble Bobble, which are trapped inside the bubbles and fly out when the bubbles pop. Inspecting the bubbles closely, one can see the enemies twitching inside the bubbles.
This version of Bust-A-Move was designed for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), which was an 16-bit video game console of the fourth generation manufactured by Nintendo in the years 1990 - 2003. In that time, it was the best-selling 16-bit video game console with superior graphics and sound compared to its competitors. Worldwide, almost 50 million units of this console were sold at approximately price $ 200 per unit. More information about the SNES console can be found here.
5 different online emulators are available for Bust-A-Move. These emulators differ not only in the technology they use to emulate old games, but also in support of various game controllers, multiplayer mode, mobile phone touchscreen, emulation speed, absence or presence of embedded ads and in many other parameters. For maximum gaming enjoyment, it's important to choose the right emulator, because on each PC and in different Internet browsers, the individual emulators behave differently. The basic features of each emulator available for this game Bust-A-Move are summarized in the following table:
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Cette liste comprend les navires en service actif dans la flotte de la Marine royale canadienne.

Frégates de patrouille polyvalente (FFH)

 Classe : Halifax
 Frégates des Forces maritimes du Pacifique :

 Frégates des Forces maritimes de l'Atlantique :

Navires de patrouille extra-côtier et de l'Arctique (NPEA)

 Classe
 Navires de patrouille extra-côtier et de l'Arctique :

Navires de défense côtière (MM)

 Classe : Kingston
 Navires de défense côtière des Forces maritimes du Pacifique :

 Navires de défense côtière des Forces maritimes de l'Atlantique :

Sous-marins de patrouille à long rayon d'action (SSK)

 Classe : Victoria
 Sous-marin des Forces maritimes du Pacifique :

Sous-marins des Forces maritimes de l'Atlantique :

Patrouilleurs et navires de formation

 Classe : Orca
 Orca (PCT 55)
 Raven (PCT 56)
 Caribou (PCT 57)
 Renard (PCT 58)
 Wolf (PCT 59)
 Grizzly (PCT 60)
 Cougar (PCT 61)
 Moose (PCT 62)

Navires auxiliaires

 MV Asterix

Navire école
 Le ketch

Notes et références

Annexes

Article connexe
 Liste des classes de navires de la Marine royale canadienne

Lien externe
 La Flotte sur le site de la Marine royale canadienne

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Pastor Randy Booth has been an ordained minister for 35 years and pastor of GCPC for 18 years. He has been married to his wife, Marinell, for 44 years, and they have three grown and married children and sixteen grandchildren. Pastor Booth holds a Bachelor of Science degree in history and psychology, and has completed graduate studies in philosophy and apologetics. He is the director of Covenant Media Foundation, and is the author of several published articles and books. Pastor Booth has been actively involved in the pro-life movement and has worked with both home schools and Christian day schools for more than thirty-five years.
Pastor Booth's Blog: Feast of Booths
Email: RandyBooth.gcc@gmail.com
Assistant Pastor
Pastor Alexander has packed a U-Haul at least nine times. He has seven souls in his family, five children to be exact. Ben has run three marathons and he wants you to know that he has only one amazing wife. He trained for the ministry at Boyce College in Louisville, Kentucky, and through Greyfriar's Hall in Moscow, Idaho. Ordained in 2010, Ben has served both as a senior and associate pastor in Washington and California. He loves history, literature, good stories, people and most of all, the Scriptures.
By day, Ben loves to study while listening to Thomas Tallis. By late afternoon, you'll find him throwing a baseball under the oak tree in his backyard with his children.
Email: benalexander.gcc@gmail.com
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Dr. Cornel West invites New Yorkers to protest and call for the immediate removal of President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. (Photo via Wikicommons)
BY ALEJANDRA O'CONNELL-DOMENECH | A new series of anti-Trump protests are set to start in the city this Saturday, Oct. 19.
Dr. Cornel West and Carl Dix, a founding organizer of Refuse Fascism and representative of the Revolutionary Communist Party, will lead the first of five protests set to take place every Saturday until Nov. 16.
The #OUTNOW protests, which call for an immediate end to the Trump administration, are meant to encourage massive outpourings like what took place in Puerto Rico against former Governor Ricardo Rosselló and in Hong Kong against an anti-extradition bill that residents felt threatened the semi-autonomous territory's democracy.
New Yorkers upset over President Trump's request of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, his stance on immigration and abortion access or the administration's rollbacks to environmental legislation will march to Trump Tower at 725 Fifth Ave. from Union Square at 2 p.m.
"We have had the Mueller report and we have had the blue wave and it all continues to happen," said Dix. " This upsurge from below is necessary to drive this regime out."
According to Dix, once at Trump Tower, protesters will pile up items representing "crimes of this regime" to create their own tower.
Refuse Fascism, an anti-Trump and Pence organization created December of 2016, has a list of suggested items to bring on their sign up sheet including plastic bottles, baby shoes, and coat hangers.
A sister protest will take place in Los Angeles on Oct. 19 where participants will spell the words "Out Now" on the Santa Monica Pier. According to Dix, the number of cities with #OUTNOW protests will grow as the month progresses. On Oct. 26, 13 protests will take place across the country in cities like Chicago, Boston, Cleveland, Atlanta, Houston and Honolulu.
For more information about Refuse Fascism check out refusefascism.org/events.
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I have a little selection of Bell & Coggins Porcelain that I inherited but which isn't really something I'm ever going to make much use of – it doesn't really fit with anything else we have and it's too delicate to have around when you have young children.
So, better that somebody who would enjoy it should have a chance to own it!
Head over to eBay if you're interested.


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Sant Josep de Sa Talaia opts for emerging technologies to control nightlife crowds
When summer comes, clubbing tourism increases potentially and, with it, crowds. After the accident that took place in Madrid Arena in 2012, the legislation regarding crowd control has improved and Sant Josep de Sa Talaia has decided to take action.
Ibiza is an international reference in the nightlife scene and, with sun and beach tourism, it's one of the economic drivers of the island. According to Balear Islands Tourism's 2016 annual, the companies in the sector billed 400 million Euros and employed around 8.000 people in 2016.
Sant Josep de Sa Talaia is the epicentre of Pitiusas' leisure and registered a daily average price of 188,6€ in August 2017, much higher than the 126,7€ rate of the whole Balear Islands. Nevertheless, those economic advantages create wide discrepancies among the island residents, due to the fact that clubbing tourism causes discomforts such as noise, illegal parties and drug abuse.
As it is a controversial activity, the Balear authorities have started regulating the sector taking advantage of new technologies. In March 17th 2017, the council in Sant Josep de Sa Talaia approved a municipal ordinance for occupancy limits and control systems. It obligates leisure venues to install an automated people counter in their leisure activities when their maximum allowed occupancy is over 200 people. This will be the first summer the regulation applies and the council wants to reduce occupancy overflows that usually happen in Ibiza due to the high demand of clubbing tourism.
Other autonomous communities are taking steps in their regulation, such as Catalonia, Aragon, Basque Country and Canary Islands. Valencia already has its Decree 145/2015, from September 11th which obliges public spectacles to use an automatic people counter in their infrastructures when their maximum allowed occupancy is over 2.000 people.
Even if it isn't a legal obligation, it's always recommended to control occupancy because it identifies overcrowded zones, monitors the flow of people and sets real-time alarms. It's important to do it with an automatic people counter with an accuracy higher than 98% in order to avoid risks when nearing the maximum occupancy.
Besides its obvious security purpose, having automatic people counters also allows to understand users' behaviour, so entertainment venues can benefit from the information to improve their queue management, employee planning and resource optimisation. Finally, we conclude that installing that system provides the company valuable information to improve their business efficiency and strategic decision making.
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Chances are if you're using Adobe GoLive CS2, you're probably also using Photoshop and maybe Illustrator too. The great thing about GoLive is that it works hand in hand with .PSD and .AI files. In this episode I'll show you how to incorporate them into each other using Smart Objects.
Live Trace is the hot new automated tracing capability of Adobe Illustrator CS2. In this Podcast I will show you how to take a logo that was created in Photoshop CS2 and trace it using Live Trace. Because Live Traces are "Live‿ we'll be able to tweak the settings to get better results. Then I'll show how to use Live Paint to fill in the logo with the correct colors from the original logo.
Acrobat 7 Professional includes a new capability that enables you to send PDFs to your clients for Review and Markup. That doesn't sound new right? However, in this version you can enable your PDFs so that even someone with just the FREE Adobe Reader can participate in the review cycle and have the markup tools without requiring that they go buy Acrobat.
The Adobe Bridge is still my preferred way to look at images in a folder. Although I like the New Adobe Lightroom a lot, I still like the fact that the Bridge can view a folder of images or other documents without having to import anything. In this episode we'll explore some of my favorite Bridge Tips. Also be sure to check out my "Secrets of Adobe Bridge‿ book.
Every time you place an image in InDesign, chances are you have to execute a fitting command to make it fit in the frame or area that you specified. In this episode of the Creative Suite Podcast I'll show you ways to do it most efficiently. You'll also see how to better integrate the Bridge into your workflow.
Adobe Illustrator CS2 has a ton of cool effects, fills and strokes. One of the most important, yet often over looked palettes in Illustrator is the Appearance palette. If you're not using it, you should be! In this episode of the Creative Suite Podcast I'll show you how to use the Appearance Palette to add multiple strokes to a path.
Removing a background from an image is probably one of the most requested techniques in Photoshop. Luckily there are numerous ways to do it in Adobe Photoshop CS2. In this Podcast I'll explore two ways to do it. One is pretty basic and the other one requires a little more finesse.
When you're working on a website, the last thing you feel like doing is creating a separate graphic on every page where you want a header to be. However, if you want to use your own fonts, styles and special effects, you have to do it with a graphic. There would be no guarantee that the viewer of your site would have the same fonts as you do. Using GoLive and Photoshop you can create the Header once in Photoshop and use it throughout your site as a "Banner‿. GoLive CS2 makes this easier than ever!
In this Podcast you'll see how to make a form using Adobe InDesign CS2 and then export it to Adobe PDF. After your form is in PDF you can actually create fields in Acrobat 7 Professional on top of your PDF enabling users to actually fill out the form right inside their web browsers with the Free Adobe Reader. If you have the Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium, you have everything you need to create your own fillable forms.


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Over the past five decades, KEITH JARRETT has come to be recognized as one of the most creative musicians of our times – universally acclaimed as an improviser of unsurpassed genius; a master of jazz piano; a classical keyboardist of great depth; and a composer who has written hundreds of pieces for his various jazz groups, plus extended works for orchestra, soloist, and chamber ensemble.
In celebration of his 70th birthday in May 2015, ECM Records released two new recordings: Creation, a solo piano release which includes nine improvisations personally selected and sequenced from live concerts he performed in April-July 2014; and Barber/Bartók/Jarrett, featuring archival live recordings from 1984/85 of performances of the Barber Piano Concerto with the Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken with Dennis Russell Davies conducting and the Bartók Piano Concerto No. 3 with the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra with Kazuyoshi Akiyama conducting, plus a short improvised solo piano encore he performed in Tokyo following the Bartók performance.
Born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Keith Jarrett began playing the piano at age 3 and undertook classical music studies throughout his youth. He took formal composition studies at age 15, before moving to Boston to briefly study at the Berklee College of Music.
After a tentative period sitting in at various New York jazz spots, Jarrett toured first in 1965/66 with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, then from 1966 – 1968 with the Charles Lloyd Quartet. He soon led his own trio with Charlie Haden and Paul Motian, which in 1972 expanded to a quartet with the addition of tenor saxophonist Dewey Redman. From 1970 – 1971 Jarrett also became a featured member in Miles Davis' electric fusion group, playing electric piano and organ, his last stint as a sideman. Thereafter, Jarrett dedicated himself exclusively to performing acoustic music as a solo artist and as a leader.
In 1971 Jarrett began his recording collaboration with German producer Manfred Eicher and ECM Records (Edition of Contemporary Music). This fruitful collaboration has produced 70 recordings to date, unparalleled in their scope, diversity, and quality.
The foundation of the Jarrett/ECM discography is made up of the landmark solo piano recordings that have helped redefine the role of the piano in contemporary music. The piano improvisations on Facing You, Solo Concerts, The Köln Concert, Staircase, Sun Bear Concerts, Moth and The Flame, Concerts, Paris Concert, Dark Intervals, Vienna Concert, La Scala, Radiance, The Carnegie Hall Concert, Testament: Paris/London, RIO, and Creation incorporate a broad spectrum of musical idioms and languages – classical, jazz, ethnic, gospel, folk, blues, and pure sound – producing music both deeply personal, yet universal. The Köln Concert has now reached its 40th anniversary and is the best-selling solo piano recording in history.
Keith Jarrett's main context for playing jazz over the past 30+ years has been in trio with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette. In January 1983 Jarrett invited Peacock and DeJohnette to New York's Power Station studio to record "standards" – the rich body of American Broadway show and jazz tunes from the 1930s, '40s, and '50s. At the time it was considered passé for top players to concentrate on "standards" instead of original material, but Jarrett thought it was important to show that "music wasn't about the material, but what the player brings to the material."
The original 1983 trio session in New York produced the trio's first three ECM releases: Standards Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, and Changes, which features free playing. (These seminal trio recordings were re-released by ECM in January 2008 as a special 3-CD box set entitled Setting Standards in celebration of the trio's 25th anniversary). Fifteen "live" concert recordings on ECM followed that 1983 session, each recorded in a different international city.
Classical music releases by Keith Jarrett on ECM include works by Bach, Handel, Mozart, and Shostakovich. In 2013, ECM released a recording of the Bach Sonatas for Violin and Piano with violinist Michelle Makarski, which was Keith Jarrett's first recording of classical repertoire in 17 years.
Keith Jarrett's many honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, both Prix du President de la Republique and Grand Prix du Disque awards from the Academie Charles Cros (France), seven Deutscher Schallplattenpries (Germany), and eight Grammy (United States) nominations in both jazz and classical categories. He has received dozens of "Artist" or "Album of the Year" awards and dozens of "Critics" and "Best of the Year" awards from the international music press.
In 1989 Keith Jarrett was named Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and then in 2007 Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, two of the highest honors the French Ministry of Culture can bestow on an artist. In 1996 he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, joining Duke Ellington as the only foreign jazz artists to ever be so honored. In 2002 he was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2003 he was awarded the Polar Music Prize, presented by the King of Sweden in a special televised ceremony in Stockholm. In July 2004, he was presented the Leonie Sonning Prize in Copenhagen, another of the world's major music awards.
In December 2008, Keith Jarrett was inducted into the Downbeat Magazine Hall of Fame, following his many other annual Downbeat Magazine Poll Awards over the past 40 years. On January 2014, he was honored as a recipient of a 2014 NEA Jazz Master Award for his lifetime achievement in a ceremony at the Jazz at Lincoln Center complex in New York.


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TransUnion Boosts Entrepreneurial Innovation with New Startup Credit Kit
Startups gain access to newest TransUnion resources to fuel their businesses
Access to relevant data can make or break a startup company, especially in the ultra-competitive financial services industry. To meet the needs of startups and their investors, TransUnion (NYSE: TRU) today launched the Startup Credit Kit at LendIt Fintech USA 2018, giving new companies faster access to cutting-edge alternative and trended credit and fraud prevention data.
"The Startup Credit Kit allows new financial services innovators to access vast amounts of data and tools quickly," said Steve Chaouki, executive vice president and head of TransUnion's financial services business unit. "New companies can use the Startup Credit Kit to move from concept to market-ready solutions much faster than ever before."
With TransUnion's Startup Credit Kit, new businesses can more quickly gain access to depersonalized consumer credit data to better explore the market for untapped opportunities. It also helps new businesses determine the viability of their products by analyzing real-world depersonalized consumer credit data. This allows startups to focus their resources on high-potential market segments and product opportunities while allowing them to prove their concept to raise funding in the early stages of the startup lifecycle.
Startups associated with investors collaborating with TransUnion can gain access to the Startup Credit Kit. "Data is the lifeblood of innovation in financial services, and many startups will benefit from access to this data," said Sheel Mohnot, partner, 500 Startups. "The Startup Credit Kit is a game-changer that will benefit startups in a wide spectrum of industries."
Startups connected with participating university and non-profit programs can also benefit from this opportunity. "Early stage access to quality data is critically important to enabling startup innovation. It is really exciting to see this program help startups open up new markets and create new data-driven business models," said E.J. Reedy, director of strategic initiatives and FinTech at the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago.
Many of the top FinTechs of today began as startups less than a decade ago. FinTechs now comprise 36% of the personal loan market share as of Q3 2017, up from 15% at the end of 2014 and just 0.8% at the conclusion of 2010.
"New startups need to hit their developmental milestones quickly in order to avoid burning precious capital, raise additional financing, and remain relevant," said John Wirth, vice president of FinTech strategy and market development at TransUnion. "The Startup Credit Kit makes it easier for entrepreneurs to jumpstart their businesses by gaining quick access to the data assets fueling much of today's innovation."
Solutions Available to Startups
Startups will have access to many award-winning solutions powered by TransUnion data. Each of the below solutions offers different benefits that can help a startup at various product lifecycles. These include:
CreditVision®: Startups can gain a more complete view of consumers and their credit histories through depersonalized trended credit data. Where traditional credit variables offer a glimpse of the consumer at a snapshot in time, trended data assets leverage up to 30 months of historical information. For example, while traditional credit variables may tell you a consumer has $10,000 in credit card debt, using trended data would indicate whether they have built up or paid down that balance over time, giving a more accurate risk profile.
CreditVision® Link(SM): The first score to combine trended credit bureau data and alternative data provides a clearer picture of a consumer's risk. CreditVision Link also allow lenders to score over 60 million more people versus traditional models, and are proven to accurately score more than 90% of applicants typically returned as no-hit or thin-file.
Fraud Prevention Exchange: Startups can better recognize fraudulent identities and behavior with access to information from other lenders, combined with available data from TransUnion's entire network of customers.
IDVision(SM) Alerts: More than 65 real-time notifications are provided about high risk, suspicious identities and other potentially fraudulent activities.
PeerIQ Credit Insights™: This benefit allows startups to quickly check market trends and performance via an analytical suite of risk management, performance measurement and valuation capabilities for each consumer credit asset class, going back to the year 2000.
"Receiving fraud alerts and recognizing fraudulent behavior through TransUnion's network can help startups navigate their way through their early, more fragile stage of development," said Wirth. "While established portfolios can endure some fraud losses, most new businesses cannot."
The ABC's of the Startup Credit Kit
The Startup Credit Kit will include two packages – the Planning Package and the Launch Package. The Planning Package involves depersonalized solutions for early stage planning and development. The Launch Package includes personalized solutions for new startups going live.
The TransUnion Startup Credit Kit is only available to new startups via their investor, university, and non-profit affiliation. "We encourage startups to check with their partners—investors, universities, and non-profits— to see if they are already participating in the program and to ask them for a referral to TransUnion," said Wirth.
Investors, universities, and non-profits not yet participating in the program, but who would like their portfolio companies to gain access to these solutions, are encouraged to contact TransUnion at startup_creditkit@transunion.com for more information.
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Information is a powerful thing. At TransUnion, we realize that. We are dedicated to finding innovative ways information can be used to help individuals make better and smarter decisions. We help uncover unique stories, trends and insights behind each data point, using historical information as well as alternative data sources. This allows a variety of markets and businesses to better manage risk and consumers to better manage their credit, personal information and identity. Today, TransUnion has a global presence in more than 30 countries and a leading presence in several international markets across North America, Africa, Latin America and Asia. Through the power of information, TransUnion is working to build stronger economies and families and safer communities worldwide.
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Galasso Alghisi (ur. 1523 w Carpi - zm. 1573) - renesansowy, włoski architekt i autor prac na temat architektury, architekt księcia Ferrary.

Bibliografia
 Ticozzi, Stefano (1830), Dizionario degli architetti, scultori, pittori, intagliatori in rame ed in pietra, coniatori di medaglie, musaicisti, niellatori, intarsiatori d'ogni etá e d'ogni nazione' (Volume 1)

Włoscy architekci
Urodzeni w 1523
Zmarli w 1573
Ludzie urodzeni w Carpi


Original Editors - Suzanne Shelburne from Bellarmine University's Pathophysiology of Complex Patient Problems project.
17% of all the population will have kidney stones in his or her life.
Average onset of kidney stones is over the age or 30 years old.
People who have had kidney stones previously are at an increased risk to have a second episode of kidney stones.
Kidney Stones can be one of the most painful urologic disorders and kidney stone have been increasing in the population over the past 30 years. "In the 1970s, less than 4 percent of the populations had stone-forming disease. By the early 1990s, the portion of the population with this disease has increased more than 5 percent."  Doctors are uncertain why these stones form in particular people and not others. Kidney stones usually do not have one defined cause, some common theories are that certain foods may cause stones to form, family history of kidney stones, infection, other kidney disorders and some metabolic disorders. .
"Severe pain in the side or back that will not go away"
Stones usually will begin causing these common signs and symptoms once the stone is blocking the outflow of the urine from the kidney into the bladder.
As of now, not enough research has been completed on kidney stones to link any co-morbidity to this disorder. Research is currently being analysis to see if there is a connection between a history of kidney stones and Chronic Kidney Disease.
Medication is often not needed when dealing with a kidney stone. Doctors will commonly prescribe pain medication for a kidney stone because passing a small stone can be very painful. The doctor usually orders the patient to drink "2 to 3 quarts of water a day" to help pass the stone through the urinary system.  If the patient is unable to pass the stone surgical intervention may be needed.
3. Does the stone block urine flow?
4. Is the stone causing an ongoing infection in the urinary tract?
6. Has the stone grown larger?
Urine can be sent for a urinalysis and culture to check for infection within the urinary tract.
There are many different factors that may cause kidney stones to form. Doctors do not always know why a person may get a kidney stone until the stone is sent to the lab for further testing. Doctors believe that life-style, family history, and certain diseases play a big role in people suffering from kidney stones. Diet (life-style) is thought to have a role in the formation of kidney stones. Foods and drinks containing oxalate are thought to make people more prone to forming calcium oxalate stones. Foods that are high in oxalate are spinach, beets, Swiss cheese, soybean crackers, chocolate and sweet potatoes. People that are trying to prevent a second episode of kidneys stones may be asked to monitor their in-take of these foods. As stated earlier, family history/personal history of kidney stones may have an increased risk to develop this disorder. People with the past family history/personal history are thought to have a 30 percent more likely chance to develop kidney stones and are often put on a preventive program. Lastly, doctors believe that certain disease put people more at risk for developing kidney stones. Urinary tract infections, cystic kidney disease, and certain metabolic disorders all make people more susceptible. "In addition, more than 70 percent of people with a rare hereditary disease called renal tubular acidosis develop kidney stones." Many of these patients that do have this disease will be put on a preventive plan to help decrease the risk of development of kidney stones.
Kidney Stones are usually not a medical emergency and will pass with normal flow of the urine, therefore does not have major systemic involvement with the rest of the body.  However, kidney stone have been linked to several disorders such as connective tissue disorders, gastric disorders, metabolic syndrome disorder, immunologic disorders and eating disorders.
"Raised serum calcium level in 2-63% of sarcoidosis patients due to overproduction of vitamin D by sarcoid granulomas, which can lead to kidney stones as a result of abnormal calcium metabolism."
Extracorporeal shock wave lithotrispy is a sugerical medical management of kidney stones that is most commonly used and the best current evidence for the removal kidney stones. "In ESWL, shock waves that are created outside the body travel through the skin and body tissues until they hit the denser stones. The stones break down into small particles and are easily passed through the urinary tract in the urine. Several types of ESWL devices exist. Most devices use either x rays or ultrasound to help the surgeon pinpoint the stone during treatment. For most types of ESWL procedures, anesthesia is needed."
Kidney Stones are managed medically but physical therapist can play an important role in screening patients for kidney stones and helping these patient seek proper medically attention. However, kidney stones can present as a musculoskeletal problem therefore therapist should be aware of some of the key questions and evaluation techniques to screen for kidney stones.
↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 National Kidney and Urologic Disease Information Clearinghouse. Adult Kidney Stones. Available at http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/Kudiseases/pubs/stonesadults/. Accessed on February 17, 2010.
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 MayoClinic Website. Kidney Stones. Available at http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/kidney-stones/DS00282. Accesses on February 17, 2010.
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