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So, you want to start watching Star Trek?
So, you want to start watching Star Trek? Please follow this handy guide, which will help you not hate yourself and others. I consider this the definitive unified theory of Star Trek Consumption.
1) Do you know anything at all about Star Trek, in general? If the answer is no, Please watch: Balance of Terror, Space Seed, Mirror, Mirror, The Trouble With Tribbles, The Enterprise Incident, and The Galileo Seven from The Original Series, in any order.
These are the best episodes, IMO, and they give you the information you need to enjoy the movies mentioned in two.
1a) Do you hate cartoons? If not, work in a couple of episodes of Star Trek the Animated Series, which is nearly perfect. It's a filmation production with animation so limited as to make Scooby-Doo look like Snow White, but it's honestly beautiful and well written.
1b) If you loved these episodes of The Original Series, watch the whole damn thing. Most of it is excellent.
If you're still itching for more, go watch Star Trek Continues, this is a fan series that continues TOS, and it's actually wonderful.
1c) If you liked Star Trek Continues, there are dozens of other fan series set throughout TOS. Star Trek New Voyages is probably the only other one that comes close in terms of quality, but Starship Farragut has some good moments, including more than one animated episode.
2) Watch The Wrath of Khan. If you loved that, then watch the Search for Spock, and the Voyage Home. If you didn't love it, Skip the Search for Spock (or go hunt down the Resurrection fan edit.) Either way, be sure to watch The Voyage Home.
The Voyage Home is the second best piece of Star Trek ever made.
If you loved all of those, continue on to The Final Frontier and The Undiscovered Country. These are not, IMO, essential viewing. They're pretty good though, and this is the time to watch them.
Do not watch Generations, under any circumstances.
2a) If you loved 2001: A Space Oddesey, but wished it was slower, cheesier, and stared William Shatner, go watch Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Otherwise, skip it and pretend it never happened.
2b) If you love Star Trek: The Motion Picture, take the time to watch at least a few episodes of the non-Star Trek property Space 1999. Space 1999 takes all of the pretentiousness of The Motion Picture and 2001, and rubs some weird 70s funk all over them. It's a good time, if that's your thing.
3) Do you know anything at all about Star Trek The Next Generation? Specifically, are you familiar with The Borg? If the answer is yes, you can skip to 4. If the answer is no, please watch: 'Q Who?', 'The Best of Both Worlds', and 'I, Borg' in that order. This is mostly so that you can fully enjoy First Contact.
3b) Feel free to watch any other episodes from TNG that catch your attention, but keep in mind that TNG is probably the most uneven Star Trek property. Many episodes are wonderful, but there are just as many clunkers and it's not worth trying to watch them all unless you really love them.
4) Watch Star Trek First Contact. This is the single greatest peice of Star Trek media ever produced, and dwarfs all other Star Trek by a wide margin. If you're only going to watch one Star Trek thing, make it this. I think First Contact rewards having seen the other things mentioned here, but it can also stand alone. It's wonderful and beautiful.
Do Not Watch Generations, the film that precedes it, under any circumstances.
5) Watch most of Star Trek Voyager. There are surprisingly few garbage episodes, especially in the early seasons of the show. If you come across an episode that you don't like, skip it. If you find yourself no longer enjoying the show, stop watching it, or skip ahead 5+ episodes. The finale is disapointing, that's okay.
6) Watch all of DS9. Just do it.
7) If you feel so compelled, catch up on the bits you skipped from TNG and TOS, or at least pull in a few more random episodes. For sure, watch Star Trek: Insurrection. It's not as good as First Contact, but it's still a fun, well directed and produced, high budget episode of Star Trek TNG masquerading as a film.
Do not, under any circumstances, watch Generations. It's a Garbage Film for Garbage People.
8) Watch Star Trek Enterprise. Consider it as an in-universe historical drama about the early days of Star Fleet, rather than as a canonical prequel. This will enhance your enjoyment of the show. Skip the series finale. Seriously, don't even watch it. It's insulting. Pretend it never happened. Don't even think about it.
9) If you absolutely must, this is the time to watch Nemesis. Find the Through the Glass Darkly fan-edit, if you can, and don't bother with the original.
10) Watch Star Trek: Beyond. If you don't LOVE it, skip the other two new movies. If you do Love it, watch the other two new movies. Keep in mind that Beyond was better than both of them, and also better than Insurrection. The other two are somewhere between Generations and Nemisis, IMO. They don't do anything particularly special, and they stretch suspension of disbelief to it's breaking, but they aren't as bad as Generations (Which is a garbage film for garbage people.)
11) Get ready for Star Trek Discovery, airing this fall.


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The purpose of this study was to create two multimedia projects using computer software that combined a soundtrack with an interpretive visualization of music written for two pianos, and to document the technical procedures involved in the creation of the multimedia projects.This study was a collaborative undertaking between the author and the other member of PALENAI Piano Duo, Adrienne Shannon. A companion to the current dissertation has been submitted by Ms. Shannon, titled Black and White in Color: The Creative Aspects Involved in the Production of Two Computer Multimedia Projects Based on Music for Two Pianos.The goal of the multimedia projects was to produce visualizations of the musical elements and compositional devices found in the selected compositions. The two pieces selected for these visualizations were "Le Cygne", from Le Carnaval des Animaux by Camille Saint-Satins, and the Prologue from the Sonata for Two Pianos by Francis Poulenc. The SWAN project is visualized by means of realistic photography and the PROLOGUE project makes use of abstract imagery.This study examines the technical procedures in all stages of the projects, including the creation of the source photographs and the scanning procedures, the image editing and manipulation stage that was carried out in Adobe Photoshop, the composition of the project using Adobe Premiere, and the output to a computer-based presentation by compiling the project into a QuickTime movie.The projects in this study are intended to express the music by visual means as a creative endeavour, as an educational tool, and as a demonstration of the capabilities of two Adobe software programs within a Macintosh environment.


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Autistic Brains Have More Brain Cells, Study Finds – ABC News.
Thanks to my friend @RepetePro for sharing this with me. I don't know if I like the idea of possibly having an abnormal number of brain cells. People already think I am strange. Now it is apparently at the cellular level. The study mentioned in the article did discover some interesting details.
They found that the brains of the autistic children had 67 percent more neurons in a region called the prefrontal cortex, an area linked to social, emotional, and communication processing — functions that are typically lacking in autism.
This discovery does bring us on step closer to discovering the causes of autism. I say causes because I believe there is more than one cause. Yet, knowing that the causes are as far down as the cellular level does not surprise me. I have long believed that there is a cellular component to the disorder and this study just proves it. Now if scientists can solve the greatest mystery of all that would be great: how people lose one white sock after they wash.
I am with you! CAUSES. I deeply feel the possibility lies in or DNA or not, and then it may be tripped by various environmental factors. There are far too many clues based upon biological factors for it not to be caused somewhat on that level.


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A bouquet of flowers lay upon the company logo outside the Google China headquarters in Beijing on Jan. 14, 2010. Google stopped mainland search in China that year.
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By Julie Makinen
Sept. 22, 2015 2 AM PT
Reporting from Beijing —
With Apple selling $13.2 billion worth of iPhones in China last quarter, and Alibaba raising nearly twice that on the New York Stock Exchange, it's no wonder Chinese officials want to showcase technology as a bright spot of cooperation when President Xi Jinping travels to the United States this week.
Xi will visit the Microsoft campus near Seattle for a forum of tech titans from both countries, but the discussion almost certainly will paper over an uncomfortable fact: Chinese government censorship is costing U.S. tech companies billions of dollars in revenue — and the "Great Firewall" isn't likely to come down soon.
Although the Great Firewall's free-speech ramifications are often discussed, its financial impact has received scant analysis. The economic repercussions of this protectionism could be most severe in California, home to the biggest U.S. companies that have been cut off from China's netizens. The censorship shuts out the state's tech giants — Google, Facebook, Twitter — along with upstarts such as Snapchat, Dropbox, Ustream and Wordpress.
How much the Communist Party's Great Firewall costs California companies is difficult to estimate, because the companies have not disclosed how much they believe they have lost. No industry trade association has put forth comprehensive figures.
But basic number-crunching puts the forfeited sums and missed opportunities at billions of dollars a year as the number of Internet users in China has exploded to 668 million.
"I don't think in general there's that much awareness, at least outside of Silicon Valley, about the impact of some of the restrictions, the Great Firewall, and what the financial consequences are and what that might translate into" for California, said Jock O'Connell, a Sacramento-based trade expert. "How many jobs would there be for people in California were those restrictions removed?"
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American tech giants are under pressure from China to turn user data and intellectual property over to the government and to transfer technology to Chinese partners. Companies including San Diego chip maker Qualcomm have come in for massive antitrust fines in China. Dell, Intel and others recently struck technology-sharing and joint investment deals in China that some outside observers say could weaken them long term.
"They do it with a gun to their head. They say either you're going to make these investments or you're not going to get access to the market," said Robert D. Atkinson, president of the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation.
The blockages represent the most in-your-face form of market denial for U.S. players, yet companies see few effective options. China, for its part, says it welcomes foreign tech companies — so long as they're on board with China's censorship regulations.
Google, Snapchat, Dropbox and other blocked California firms declined to discuss costs to their business. One executive, who asked not to be named to avoid antagonizing Chinese authorities, said, "I'm not sure we've added it up fully, because it would probably be too cruel."
Industry lobbyists and analysts say the time may be ripe for a fuller accounting of the costs as a precursor to action.
China now is "too big for us to ignore it when they break the rules," said James Lewis, director of the Strategic Technologies Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Putting a hard number on lost business is subjective and difficult. But consider some figures:
By revenue, Google had a 36% share of search advertising in China when it shut down mainland search in early 2010, after repeated disputes over censorship, blockages and hacker intrusions. At the time, Google pulled in roughly $300 million a year in China — barely more than 1% of its total global revenue.
Since then, total search ad spending in China has ballooned 545%. Google keeps about 500 people in China, most to sell ads to Chinese companies that promote themselves abroad. Google has hung on to about 10% of the ad market, iResearch estimates, about $1 billion in 2014.
If Google had maintained the same share in China it held in early 2010, it would have taken in $3.5 billion on the mainland last year — nearly 5% of Google's total revenue.
"We certainly see how important China is to Apple," said Clayton Dube, head of the U.S.-China Institute at USC. Although there's no guarantee that all American tech companies would succeed in China if free to operate, "it's not unreasonable to assume they would have done well."
Google doesn't make money in China from its mobile-phone app store, Google Play, nor its ad-supported video-streaming site YouTube, because they're blocked.
And other services face knock-on effects: Foreign exchange students whose home campuses in the U.S. normally share files via Google Docs can't download assignments. Employees of foreign companies on Google's Gmail encounter maddening blockages.
Going forward, such issues may make Google services less attractive for individual consumers as well as multinational corporations, nonprofits and even educational institutions that need to work with people in China.
The problems fester as California Internet companies look overseas for growth.
Facebook, for example, has substantial room to grow in Asia — less than 16% of its global revenue comes from the fast-growing region. Its rival in China, WeChat, a messaging app and social media platform created by Tencent in 2011, has 600 million customers.
If Facebook could sign up 100 million of those customers and monetize them at the same rate as it does its other Asian users, it could add half a billion dollars to its revenue annually. If it could monetize those 100 million at the same rate it does European users, Facebook's yearly revenue would increase 10%, or $1.3 billion.
For Facebook, Twitter and others, obstacles in China will at some point pose a major challenge to continued growth, said O'Connell, the trade expert. "Once they've saturated the rest of the world, suddenly there's a market of 1.3 billion … and they're cut off from that."
"It is likely to surface as a major financial and diplomatic issue between U.S. and China," he added.
Some are urging action now. On Thursday the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation held a meeting with Rep. J. Randy Forbes (R-Va.) in which panelists called for "constructive confrontation" with China, saying it was failing to live up to commitments it made when it joined the World Trade Organization in 2001.
"If you compare the U.S. tech company attitudes now to four years ago, it's radically different. Four years ago they still drank the Kool-Aid that this was all going to work out," Atkinson, the foundation's president, said in an interview. "Now they don't buy that anymore."
Rather than mount a time-consuming WTO case, Atkinson's group recommends that the U.S. prioritize fighting China's "innovation mercantilism" above such issues as climate change, human rights or North Korean belligerence and that the White House create a National Industrial Intelligence Council to develop responses to other nations' economic policies.
Those might include curtailing scientific cooperation with China, denying firms that steal intellectual property access to the U.S. banking system, and requiring Chinese entities that license technology in the U.S. to meet the same terms that American entities face in China.
Matt Schruers, vice president for law and policy at the Computer & Communications Industry Assn., has warned lawmakers that because the U.S. has largely acquiesced to digital trade barriers in China, "other governments have been emboldened to follow this lead."
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The risk is that Beijing could react to U.S. pressure with even more rigid controls over technology and information security, said Samm Sacks, China analyst at the Eurasia Group.
American officials should refrain from "provoking Beijing to dig in deeper and leave U.S. companies with limited options for operating in China's market," she cautioned.
The U.S. should align with other countries like Japan and Germany to increase bargaining power, Sacks said.
The blockages have led to difficult internal discussions in Silicon Valley about core values. Some companies, like LinkedIn, have set up Chinese services that censor politically sensitive speech.
Tech companies could benefit from more unity, some say.
"When the tech companies band together and get U.S. government support — and hopefully some foreign support too — the Chinese will be flexible if there's enough pressure," said Lewis of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
One option, said Hosuk Lee-Makiyama, a former trade negotiator for Sweden and coauthor of a 2009 paper suggesting that U.S. Internet companies had a good argument for a WTO trade case against China's Internet blocking: Use the carrot of a trade deal like the Trans-Pacific Partnership to lure China to change its ways.
"We have to arrange a grand bargain. We've done it before — on WTO. China is saying now they want into TPP," which is likely, he said, to contain hard language on open and proprietary information and data localization.
"Compare China before and after WTO entry, and after, there's a huge difference in terms of economic openness," Lee-Makiyama said. "You can't even compare it. You've got to do a few deals like that. That's how you get your economic objectives implemented."
julie.makinen@latimes.com
Times staff writers Jonathan Kaiman in Beijing and Andrea Chang in Los Angeles, and Tommy Yang in The Times' Beijing bureau, contributed to this report.
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We've blogged about the need for legal document translation services for insurance claims adjusters dealing with non-English-speaking claimants. In any professional relationship you need to learn how to manage expectations. In fact, that skill is vital in personal relationships as well. When it comes to the relationship between an insurance company and its insured, managing expectations is – beyond all else – the name of the game.
Indeed, at the outset of any insurance relationship there is a careful discussion about what is covered and what is not covered under the insurance policy being purchased. Voluminous pages of an insurance policy are proof of how hard insurance companies try to make clear what they will cover in the event of a triggering accident or occurrence.
Then, when there is a triggering event, the insurance company will typically kick into high gear to figure out what is, and what is not, the insurance company's responsibility. If you are an experienced insurance professional, you know all too well the disputes that can arise from the interpretation of an insurance policy.
Because of the potential for disputes on policy coverage following a triggering event, insurance companies will typically send the policyholder a "reservation of rights" (ROR) letter. The purpose of that letter is to inform the policyholder that the insurance company will do what is required to investigate an insurance claim, or provide litigation defense in response to a lawsuit. However, the letter also indicates to the policyholder that it is reserving the right to claim that it is not responsible to pay for whatever results from the triggering event.
The contents of an ROR letter are, needless to say, very important. The letter needs to provide some notice to the policyholder indicating that it is not agreeing to cover everything simply because it is investigating a claim or providing a legal defense. As a federal court in New York succinctly put it, a "reservation of rights letter must give fair notice to the insured that the insurer intends to assert defenses to coverage or to pursue a declaratory relief action at a later date." United Nat'l Ins. Co. v. Waterfront N.Y. Realty Corp.
The ROR letter has dual purposes. It protects the insurer's interest by managing the policyholder's expectations. Also, it benefits the policyholder by alerting the policyholder to the chance that (i) coverage may not be applicable for a loss, (ii) conflicts may exist between the policyholder and the insurer as to what is covered; and (iii) the policyholder should be prepared if something is determined not to be covered.
Given the purposes of the ROR letter, it is key that the policyholder understands the reservation of rights letter such that he or she is properly put on notice. In fact, the specificity of the ROR letter is a tough needle to thread, because what one court believes is specific enough may not be specific enough for another court. Here are two cases in point.
• Harleysville Group Insurance v. Heritage Communities, Inc.
In a recent case before the Supreme Court of South Carolina, Harleysville Group Insurance v. Heritage Communities, Inc., the specificity of an ROR letter was front and center in the case.
In the case, Heritage Communities built two condominium complexes in Myrtle Beach between 1997 and 2000. Shortly after completion, residents of the complexes began to complain of construction defects, including structural deficiencies and significant water-intrusion problems.
Eventually, the residents filed several lawsuits against Heritage and its insurer – Harleysville. Harleysville agreed to defend Heritage in court. However, Harleysville also was sure to provide Heritage with an ROR letter. The letter was simply a cut-and-paste of the insurance policy language. With regard to the possibility of punitive damages, Harleysville's ROR letter was a bit more specific about disclaiming any liability for those types of damages.
Following a jury trial, Heritage was found to be responsible for both actual and punitive damages in the millions of dollars. Harleysville then issued its own lawsuit seeking a declaration that it was not responsible for actual or punitive damages.
The South Carolina Supreme Court, however, disagreed. The court noted that simply cutting and pasting policy language into an ROR letter is not sufficient to inform a policyholder as to why the insurance company may not provide coverage. The court then found that because Harleysville did not clearly or specifically reserve its rights, it is deemed to have waived them.
As for the punitive damages, the court noted that Harleysville's ROR letter was sufficiently clear on its reservation of rights. However, Harleysville's policy does, in actuality, cover punitive damages, and therefore the company cannot avoid covering that loss.
In contrast to Harleysville, there is the Texas case of Nutmeg Insurance Co. v. Clear Lake Water Authority. In that case, a policyholder argued that an ROR letter was not adequate and therefore the insurance company did not reserve its rights. The Texas court, however, said that even though the letter could have been more specific, the policyholder has failed to show any particular requirements for an ROR letter such that it can be deemed to be too general.
As the comparison of cases above shows, ROR letters need to be specific and, more importantly, there is no telling which way a court will go as to whether the letter is specific enough.
Of course, if you are an insurance company that provides policies to policyholders inside and outside of the United States, then you need to make sure that your ROR letters are properly translated from English to the languages spoken by your foreign-born policyholders. Given that specificity is always an issue, an ROR letter to a foreign policyholder that is not in the policyholder's native language will likely be hard proof that the ROR letter did sufficiently put the policyholder on notice that there may not be insurance coverage for a particular loss.
The way to avoid this problem is to hire a reliable, professional legal translation service to translate ROR letters for your company. All Language Alliance, Inc. is the premier legal translation service around, providing multilingual document translation services throughout the U.S. and the globe. A non-legal translator would not be able to do the job when it comes to your ROR letter. Because there is highly legal and technical information in those letters, All Language Alliance, Inc. should be your next call. Email us to find out more about how we can help you with legal translation of ROR letter from English to Simplified Chinese, Korean, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese, French, and other languages.
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£26m BID ACCEPTED, Medicals SCHEDULED, Torreira To Be Announced This Week
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According to the Mirror, Lucas Torreira will undergo his medical with Arsenal this week and complete a £26m move from Serie A club after agreeing a five-year contract with the Gunners.
Arsenal new boss Unai Emery is working very active in the market for recruitment's to strengthen his midfield options this summer and he's looking to add a defensive midfielder to the squad as club have struggled to protect the back four in recent years. Granit Xhaka who plays in this role is more of a deep lying midfield and has been severally been criticised for his lack of defensive awareness in most appearances.
With Santi Cazorla gone and Jack Wilshere's future yet uncertain, Arsenal need to sign at least one central midfielder and Torreira has emerged as a prime target for the Gunners. Wilshere's contract will expires this month and he's likely to leave the club on a free transfer.
The negotiations seem to have gone well as the Mirror claim the Uruguayan international has now agreed terms over a five-year contract after Arsenal settled on a deal worth £26m with Sampdoria for his signature.
Negotiations between Arsenal and Sampdoria appears to have gone well as the Mirror claim Torriera has now agreed terms over a five-year contract with the Gunners worth around £26m.
The Daily Mirror, however, are citing reports from the Daily Star that claims the Uruguayan is scheduled to have his medicals at Russia over the coming days.
Torreira is in the Uruguayan squad for the World Cup finals and there have been reports that Arsenal have sent a medical team out to Russia to oversee his medical before we complete our second signing of the summer.
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Take holidays to Australia for a movie star experience
People who enjoy visiting film locations could consider taking holidays to Australia, particularly the southern regions, it has been suggested.
Two upcoming films – sure to be summer blockbusters – were shot on location in South Australia and travellers may enjoy seeing sites that inspired their producers before other visitors catch on, Easier.com suggests.
Firstly, The Boys Are Back will star Clive Owen and features 33 locations including the Fleurieu Peninsula and the Adelaide Hills.
Commenting on why he chose this particular region Down Under, producer Scott Hicks said: "I've always been inspired by South Australia, by its natural beauty and variety of landscape and environment."
Meanwhile, the Eyre Peninsula was the inspiration for Under the Sea 3D, a film narrated by Jim Carrey.
Tourists heading to this location may get to see the real stars of the film, including giant cuttlefish, leafy sea dragons and possibly even sea lions.
Last year, the Baz Luhrmann film Australia helped to put the country back to the top of travellers' must-see lists thanks to the beautiful scenery it portrayed.
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Who is North Bay Rowing Club?
NBRC was founded in 1984 by Greg Sabourin to support the sport of rowing and take advantage of the scenic and calm Petaluma River. Since then, our masters program for adults has grown to over 80 dedicated members of all skill levels. The Juniors program began in the early 2000s and competes against over 30 teams within the Southwest Region, representing junior high and high school athletes from Sonoma, Napa and Marin Counties. The Juniors program has grown dramatically in the past several years, and now has over 80 athletes.
Practice and Training
Each practice is two hours long and will be divided between the land and water. The team focuses on training on the water, but practices on land are equally important, and athletes are expected to attend all sessions regardless of locations. Most practices will take place at the NBRC boatyard, but will occasionally move to other nearby locations if conditions require.
Coxwains
The coxswain (pronounced "coxin") is perhaps the most important individual in the boat. Analogous to the quarterback, the cox is the leader of the crew on the water, in charge of steering the boat, directing the actions of the rowers, and making critical race moves. Becoming a good coxswain requires confidence, ability to make snap decisions, and builds leadership ability.
The Competitive Team participates in a number of regattas throughout the year, most of them local, but some as far away as Sacramento, San Diego, or Oregon. In most regattas, all athletes will compete, but for our most competitive regattas, crews will be hand-selected by the coaches. The selection process varies and is the prerogative of the coaches, but generally includes some mix of these elements:
Erg Testing/Fitness: Athletes are tested periodically on the rowing machines to gauge progress. In the fall season, the coach will test athletes in five or six kilometer pieces, and in the Spring, athletes will be tested with two kilometer pieces. The coaches look for continual improvement throughout the season as well as performance relative to teammates. These test pieces are standard in the sport, and are also used by the Junior National Team when inviting athletes to selection camps.
Attendance: Practice attendance is a requirement for race participation. While the occasional absence may not prohibit a rower from competition, repeated absences will impact improvement, and chronic absences may result in noncompetition.
Technical Proficiency: Rowing is a complex sport that requires a thorough understanding of technique, and the coaches will take technical proficiency into account when selecting race crews.
Seat Racing: Seat racing is a process that determines the relative speed of two or more rowers by having them scrimmage against each other in separate boats over multiple pieces.
Attitude: Athletes are expected to arrive at the boatyard focused and ready to work as a team. Positivity and willingness to improve are all key factors in defining the speed of a boat, and are taken into account when selecting race crews.
Sweep Rowing and Sculling
Sweep Rowing: Sweep rowing is when each rower uses only oar. The Junior Crew races in boats that hold either two, four or eight rowers, plus one coxswain. The boats are classified as a pair (2-), four (4+), or an eight (8+).
Sculling: Sculling is the discipline of rowing in which each athlete has two oars. The Junior Crew races in boats that hold either one, two, or four rowers, with no coxswain. These boats are classified as a single (1x), double (2x), and quad (4x).
Over the course of their time at NBRC, athletes will likely row most or all of these boat classes, and the coaches will select for a diversity of events.
The High School Competitive Team meets five days a week.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday from 4-6:30
and Saturdays from 7-9:30
The Middle School Learn-to-Row Team meets three days a week.
Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 4-5:30pm
Program Dues
Refer to the Junior Crew Fees Page
NBRC is a 501(c)(3) organization, and fundraising efforts play a key role in the support of our teams. The Junior Crew hosts several fundraising events annually, and athletes are required to participate, including:
Erg-a-thon: Athletes are divided into two teams and race 100 miles on a single rowing machine. The event is held in downtown Petaluma just outside Central Market restaurant on Petaluma Blvd N. Juniors solicit local businesses for donations in support of NBRC Junior athletics.
Car Washes: Each season NBRC athletes wash cars in exchange for donations. Locations and dates will vary.
Dine-and-Donate: Hosted at a local restaurant, a percentage of the proceeds will be donated to NBRC Junior athletics. Families are encouraged to promote and participate in this event.
eSript Fundraising: You shop and NBRC earns money! Check the donate page for details.
Parent Booster Club & Volunteering
The Booster Club is the foundation of any successful high school team. Parents support NBRC athletics by voluntarily participating in several functions throughout the season, including hosting pre-race dinners, providing transport and support at races, organizing travel detail for road trips, and organizing and attending fundraising events. Booster events are a great way to get more involved with your child's sport and meet other parents! Ask one of the coaches for details about how to get involved!
NBRC offers a limited number of scholarships for families in need of assistance. If your athlete is ready to participate in the Juniors Program and assistance is needed, contact Head Coach Will Whalen: will.whalen@gmail.com
The basic uniform that is mandatory for all athletes is the unisuit, practice tank top, practice trou (spandex shorts), and practice t-shirt. Optional but recommended additions include NBRC bags, tech jackets, warm up gear.
Both running shoes and sandals are required at each practice, and sunglasses and a hat are strongly recommended.
Uniforms are purchased by the athletes through JL Racing, and opportunities to purchase gear are provided at the start of each season.
The Boatyard & Parking
Most practices are held at the NBRC Boatyard in the southwest corner of the Foundry Wharf parking lot. Parking in the lot is strictly prohibited from 7am-5pm Monday-Friday; if you are picking up your athlete during these hours and need to park please utilize street parking only. Driving through the parking lot and remaining in your vehicle is allowed. Parking in the lot is permitted on weekends.
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To label ourselves by just one moment is is to deny the millions of other experiences we have encountered.
Well it has officially been one year since I started on the grand adventure of being a business owner. I have had my share of milestones with a few panic attacks sprinkled in between, but I can say without a doubt it was the best, most empowering decision I have ever made. And as with any good experience I have learned quite a bit, so I decided to share with you all the top 5 lessons the first year of owning a business has taught me.
So remember maybe your back pain that isn't going away is more than just back pain. It may seem like a long dark road, but take that first step, I'll show you the way. And always remember that it is in the darkest nights, we truly see.
So let the turntable spin even if it's not what you want to hear, let the music teach you to be patient, and when the needle finally reaches that magical spot on the vinyl, be present and appreciate not just your song, but the journey that brought you to it.
But what we are missing is that hard sculpted bodies aren't always healthy, and no amount of working out can make up for a bad diet and unhealthy lifestyle.
We all have our crosses to bear, our demons to face. We can spend the rest of our lives carrying those crosses like a show piece saying "LOOK! look at my pain!". We can wage war against our demons every day and spend the evenings licking our wounds. Or we can free ourselves of them completely by not letting them define us.
... I realized it was because when I looked at these pictures I was hoping to find someone else. I thought a picture would show me a confident, strong, happy person and then I could believe it. I thought that if that picture made my waist look smaller and my legs more toned than I could forever see myself that way.
And kindness is free right? So why aren't we kind all of the time? It's because kindness is not free, it is something we give to one another. The famous saying is "you can't pour from an empty cup", you can't give what you don't have.
I don't think Mr. Turtle ever had to go sleep under a different rock because Mrs. Trutle thought he called her shell ugly.
Because no matter what it is we want, and what we think it will change, when and if we finally get it, there will always be another obstacle waiting around the corner.
The best way to remember who you are is to just be with yourself. The best way to remember what your true dreams are is to let your mind wander.
After a lot of thought, I realized the question I should be asking is, "how can I be content without being complacent?".
For the first time in my whole life, I looked at myself with nothing but pride and love.
So if you are like me and spend your life disappointed that no one is bringing you soup when you're sick, take a step back and think "did I even ask?".
You work to find that spiritual wholeness, the true happiness at your core, and then nothing will be able to get to you.
Is that really the worst thing I could do?
If the worst thing I do in life, is not have a child, is it really so bad? If I contribute to the world in a positive way through my career, interpersonal relationships, and philanthropy, but don't have a child am I less significant?
I'm just a woman who has a hard time seeing her body as beautiful. Whose doubts about her physical appearance, roll into doubting her self-worth. So where do I belong? Who do I get encouragement from? It turns out the answer was right in front of me all along.
I realized that my biggest fear is staying on the path I'm currently on for the rest of my life. Don't get me wrong I am happy with my life, but in my lasts breaths on this earth I don't want to say "I was comfortable". I want to say I tried, I jumped. And maybe I didn't always fly, but you can bet your last dollar I felt alive my whole life.
It's My Birthday, and I'm Making a Big Deal!
I may be turning 29 today, but this is my first REAL birthday celebration. And not because of anything anyone else is doing, but because I can finally give myself a true present the best present of all, LOVE.


Wool is naturally flame resistant, so I'd be curious to know if fragments of a wool sock were actually found.
Was going to buy the book "Incendiary" before this show, but won't now. The Captain kind of got it right, should have called him the "Sad Bomber." I guess it would have been terrorizing in a small city, but in a major metropolis, I don't think this guy was making too many people lose sleep, the dastardly dimwit.
How ironic that he ended up receiving medical treatment for his injuries after all. I'm guessing it was free of charge too since he since he was in state's custody? Good show guys.
How ironic that he ended up receiving medical treatment for his injuries after all. I'm guessing it was free of charge too since he since he was in state's custody?
Say, Kingbat, did you take a break from beating off to the Disney Network to proof read internet posts?
Not sure what you mean Mark. Very pedophilic of you to go straight to rubbing one out to children's programming. I spelled dastardly incorrectly because I was driven nuts by the mispronunciation throughout the entire episode. Can't wait to hear the episode on you when it drops though.


As you can see from the changelog, Hubzilla has gone through a very busy development cycle. To simplify the settings and improve the general UX, we have re-organised the entire apps and settings infrastructure.
Some features from the "Additional Features" section have been transformed to stand-alone apps and will need to be installed by the channel owner. Other features have been moved to the per app settings pages which are now easily accessible from the navigation bar or the app store.
Some addons have already been ported to the new apps infrastructure. This work is ongoing and will be completed during the next development cycle.
As always, a big THANK YOU! to the translators and everybody who is helping to improve Hubzilla.
In case you attended the RC testing, remember to git checkout master your core, addon and widget repositories prior to the upgrade.
During the next development cycle we will start implementing the new version of the zot protocol (zot6) which already powers Hubzillas social network oriented sibling Osada.
Cool, the Upgrade Info thing is a nice touch!
Went well on my Live instance.
On the dev playground, where I had the RC already, I get this.
Did I miss something during the RC round?
project.hubzilla.org start.hubzilla.org and hubzilla.rocks have been upgraded. So has my latest installment zotlabs.org.
And your hub's code is updated with both new addons and new Hubzilla 3.8 and addons are turned on?
@Anthony your hub does not appear to have any of the federation addons installed (diaspora, pubcrawl, gnu-social). Also i suggest you to install the upgrade_info addon.
@Jens (public) are you sure your addons are updated?
@Mario Vavti I had deleted my message in the meantime: -) in fact I didn't understand the transfer between addons > applications. I'm deactivating the addons and replacing them with applications.
@Mario Vavti I don't quite understand a point: for diaspora you need the application AND the addon?? if I only leave the application I no longer have the page: https://hub.heraut.eu/.well-known/x-social-relay for example.
If I delete the application nothing works.
Installing an addon is a pure admin only task.
Maybe think of it this way.
ADDONS are system plugins that add functionality or change the behavior of a hub itself.
APPLICATIONS are user facing interfaces which apply to the channels they are installed on. They may provide the user interface to an addon on the local hub or they may be a link to an addon or extended functionality on another hub.
In many cases, a given functionality will have both an ADDON (something installed on the hub) and a APPLICATION (something that modifies the behavior of a channel or provides the channel's interface to a given addon.).
It helps to think of Hubzilla as more of an operating system or platform on which different applications run rather than thinking of it as a single application itself. The addons are like installing programs and functionality, the applications are like setting it up in the user's profile.
Unfortunately this is another area where Hubzilla is way ahead of the curve and there is no existing terminology to really borrow. So there is a bit of a learning curve for all of us.
The "addon" is the admin side. The "application" is the user side (your channel). The addon has to be activated before the user can see the application.
Before 3.8, there were no "application" for the majority of the addon. Their settings rely on the user setting "tech level". So, an addon's setting might be hidden until a user increases their tech level setting.
In 3.8, those settings were changed into application format. The tech level has been removed too since it is no longer needed. Each user can activate whichever addon they want to use, provided the admin has enabled the addon.
On the admin side, the Diaspora addon has to be activated.
Then on the user side, activate the Diaspora application.
It should work from there.
thank you three for the explanations.
Thank you a lot for the work for this new version. I like the "appification" and the new access to the setting a lot.
One question though. Will i be able to predefine settings in the new addon/application system for all users? What I mean is set up diaspora and activitypub federation by default etc. I have done it on our current install. Will I have to redo it or the settings stay intact?
How can I, as a channel owner/user uninstall an app? Say I tried the new wysywig editor, don't like it and want to go back: where is the uninstall?
Go to your apps, click the blue manage button. There you will be able to edit or delete an app.
Will i be able to predefine settings in the new addon/application system for all users?
For the apps @M. Dent created an addon. It's functional but not official yet because there is no frontend to it yet. You can have a look here.
Not if you have custom modifications you want to keep.
after you update will preserve your changes (assuming there are no conflicts with the new code).
Thanks @Max Kostikov & @Mike Macgirvin ! The 3.8 beast is breathing & alive now and runs beautifully!
One question: is util/safemode something special for this update or is this recommended for any update of addons?
@Thomas Runge it is not always needed but it does not do any harm if you do.


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Why does Latin America have a higher number of surviving Native Americans than North America?
Despite having the same disease susceptibility and technological inferiority against the Europeans, it seems that Native Americans have much more surviving descendants in Latin America compared to North America (today's US and Canada). In many Latin American countries, Mestizos (people of combined European and Native American descents) are majorities or large minorities, while in almost all of US states or Canadian provinces, Native Americans (or mixed) are small minorities.
Why is it so? This related question hints the different Catholic vs Protestant culture, tendency of the Spanish/Portuguese colonizers to intermix while English settlers brought women with them. But still, even in former Spanish territories in the US, such as California, Louisiana or Florida, there's still low number of Native American descendants.
Here is a map of the proportion of native descendants from Wikipedia:
british-empire native-americans spanish-empire demography americas
Probably because Central and South America had larger native populations to begin with. Do you really want to ask about the numbers, or is the question more about the proportions? (p.s. this page) – Semaphore♦ Oct 31 '14 at 6:20
It is because the Spanish and Portugeuse had a policy of enslaving the Indians whereas the English killed them. – Tyler Durden Oct 31 '14 at 7:29
@TylerDurden nonsense. Those enslaved Amerindians died in droves. And the Spanish and Portuguese killed them in huge numbers as well. If anything the English killed far fewer. – jwenting Oct 31 '14 at 7:32
Because most Native Americans who did not die of diseases were killed by spears and guns of European settlers. There is something called "manifest destiny" which happened in North America specially USA. – Rolen Koh Apr 3 '17 at 5:17
@RolenKoh : politically motivated cartoons depicting the colonization of America as a D-Day landing (troops jumping out of ships and starting shooting) is not the correct way of learning history. It was much, much complicated than that. – vsz Apr 3 '17 at 6:22
I think you are missing the true pattern of that map. Note that it shows a higher percentage of natives in Canada than it does in the US, and shows the same lower percentage of natives in the USA as in a geographically contiguous area of South America (1% or less).
If anything, the real pattern there is that areas in the subtropics (but not subartic) have almost no natives left, whereas areas outside that zone tend to have more. For comparison, here's a map of the subtropical climate zones.
The correspondence between these areas and the "fertile crescent" is no coincidence. That's where almost all European crops were domesticated, and thus where they grow best. Other areas may be useful to rule, but to come settle and live, a European society needs a place its crops can grow. (Note the yellow bands in South Africa and Australia and New Zeeland. Its no coincidence those are the only areas of significant European habitation in Africa and SE Asia/Oceana respectively.
To take a more detailed look, below is a worldwide climate zone map. The European crop package can grow well anywhere you see tan (semi-arid), green (temperate), yellow (Mediterranean), or the lighter of the more greeny blues (warmer Continental). Those areas match up almost perfectly with your map above of where native populations were completely eclipsed. Which Europeans ended up colonizing an area doesn't seem to have had an appreciable affect.
So the answer here is that natives were pushed(wiped?) out nearly everywhere their land was useful for European agriculture.
Very nice answer, especially for the second map, which explains more where colons could have decided to settle (most of them probably did not know anything about the fertile crescent). However, how do you account for the carribeans (larger sensibility to diseases ?) and Brazil (smaller nomadic native populations ?) – user5751924 Jun 7 '17 at 16:04
@user5751924 - Those are two interesting cases. In the Carribean I know the history there is that Europe got addicted to one particular tropical crop (sugarcane). But since otherwise it wasn't a great area for Europeans, they used slaves to do all the farming. Some kind of combo of slavery, European diseases, and African tropical diseases ended up wiping out all the natives, so they ended up with a workforce that was almost entirely African. – T.E.D.♦ Jun 7 '17 at 16:22
@user5751924 - Brazil is the more interesting case. One possibility is the Carribean case happened there too. Another is that the entire population of the country is descended from people who initially were living in the small orange and green areas on its map, with the rest of the country being barely inhabited jungle (this one would be my SWAG). Or possibly it just blows my entire thesis. I'd made a mental note to look into which it was, but never got one of those round tuits. – T.E.D.♦ Jun 7 '17 at 16:26
If you look at a population-density map of Brazil, most of the population is concentrated in the European-crop-friendly areas. – Mark Apr 5 '19 at 0:54
Apart from other reasons here exposed, I think it is worth mentioning
a) some groups of South American natives were adapted (culturally, and even in some cases, physically) to environments which were not comfortable for white settlers. For extreme examples, think of Amazonian tribes and inhabitants from the Andean Plateau. In these cases, there was little interest in displacing the Indians and (as long as they accepted Spanish rule and religion) were left undisturbed. Compare that with the continual removal of North American natives from their native lands.
b) as noted somewhere else, South American natives had developed agriculture to a higher degree. That meant that they needed less vital space than hunter-gatherers, so Spanish settlements were less of a disruption to their way of life.
c) immigration:
size: as long as it could, Castille and Spain tried to prevent immigration from foreigners, which meant a reduced immigration rate. Wikipedia gives only 240.000 European immigrants in the XVI century 3.
character: for many immigrants, the ideal was that of the Indiano (Spanish Wikipedia link). He would go to America, work hard for some years, and come back to Europe (often to his birthplace) as a rich man (or not). Those immigrants did not want to settle in America, and often would travel without their family(*).
That would make European population quite small, and also would not grow quickly. That meant that there was less pressure to displace the surviving Indians, and that at any rate
Additionally (and now this is more speculative), South American natives did not become involved in the foreign politics of Castille/Spain as North American did (supporting France and England). Maybe that helped their survival.
*I remember a textbook stating that only 1 in 10 immigrants to Spanish America was a woman, and that included nuns. Can't give a reference to that, sorry.
SJuan76SJuan76
+1. To expand on your "speculative" point: I've heard it been said that while the War of 1812 is often considered to have been a draw from the perspective of the Americans and the British/Canadians, the only clearcut losers were the tribes that allied themselves with Britain. – two sheds Feb 1 '15 at 19:12
Pre-columbian population of North America was only a couple of million people, most of them are pre-agricultural hunter-gatherers. This kind of lifestyle does not allow more than 2-4 million people people to live on the continent. Central and South America, on the other hand, was home of several large civilizations with developed agriculture, and significantly larger native population.
The occupation of North America was followed by a huge population boom due to the introduction of agriculture, and obviously it was effecting the European settlers, but not the native Americans. Sure, at the beginning there were famines and lot of struggling, but later the situation became more stable: the actual occupation and population of the continent happened 100-150 years ago. Meanwhile the number of native Americans were not positively effected by the economical/agricultural growths.
In Latin America this population boom was much smaller, as local agriculture was already developed and the introduction European methods made much smaller impact. Compare the population of Mayas, Aztecs or Incas of present population of the area, and you will see much smaller change.
Also, there is a different number game here, too: Large part of the population is mixed in any American countries, and it is largely cultural how do people count themselves.
I am glad you hear your comments if you think I am wrong / downgraded the answer. – Greg Nov 7 '14 at 6:52
Quite apart from Semaphore's assertion that there simply were more Amerindians in the south than in the north, there's also the factor that there was far more immigration of Europeans and Asians into the north than there was into the south.
But that's not all of it. Another important factor is how the numbers are established.
Especially in the US people who're crossbreeds between Amerindians and other races aren't counted as Amerindians. In many other places they are so counted, so that half breed European/Amerindians are shown on your map as being European in the US and probably Amerindian in for example Peru.
Which of course greatly skews the numbers.
jwentingjwenting
In my defence, my comment is backed by most population estimates (except Dobyns?) – Semaphore♦ Oct 31 '14 at 7:25
@Semaphore of course, just pointing out the percentages are skewed because of more than just raw numbers of pure blooded Amerindians in each area. – jwenting Oct 31 '14 at 7:28
Most Latin Americans are partially Amerindian without being considered Amerindians. Check for example this study (link to a blog post), stating that the general population of Colombia have some 25-45% of Amerindian admixture. I guess that the map refers to people culturally Amerindian. – Miguel Costa Jan 14 '17 at 11:02
The terms "crossbreed" and "half breed" are considered by most to be offensive. Might I suggest replacing with mixed race or biracial. – Tom Jan 7 '18 at 1:31
@Tom whether some people don't like a term is irrelevant. They're scientifically correct. – jwenting Jan 8 '18 at 8:19
The Spanish treated Amerindians in South America decidedly better than the "Anglos" did in North America. Which is why many more survived in Spanish territories.
The Spanish regarded the Amerindians as sources of labor on farms and mines, as well as souls to be converted. Thus, the Spanish at least treated them just well enough to ensure that a large number survived. Attempts were also made to convert them to Catholicism, and once this was done, in integrate them into "society," even if it was at the bottom.
In North America on the other hand, the Anglo-Saxons basically "ran the Amerindians out of town." The survivors of the resulting confrontations were rounded up and placed on reservations in places like the Badlands of South Dakota, basically the worst land on the continent. And I use the word "survivor" as a reference to what happened to the "others." Apart from the occasional odd exception, there was no "mixing" between whites and Amerindians in North America. Certainly no attempt to integrate most Indians into "American" society.
The Spanish drove the Jews and Moors out of Spain because they were members of "established" religions that were not "convertible. But they adopted a softer policy toward the Amerindians in South America because they were seen as "convertible." In the end, that was quite a bit better than the Anglo-Saxons in North America treated their Amerindians.
See also this related question.
Tom AuTom Au
I think a big part of this is that a lot of the initial Spanish/Portuguese expeditions were groups of men looking for treasure while the initial English colonies in North America were gender balanced. This led the Spanish/Portuguese to look for woman among the native populations, which led to a mixed race contingent of the population, something that necessarily dulled some of the "US vs them" actions like you saw in North America. – Gort the Robot Apr 4 '19 at 17:16
@StevenBurnap: The link in the last sentence (indirectly) addresses this point. – Tom Au Apr 4 '19 at 18:23
First, consider that the N American continent wasn't as heavily populated as central and S America at that time, with the N American tribes being largely nomadic hunter/gatherers while the central and S American tribes had more advanced and established civilizations that were on the order of the early Egyptian societies, capable of supporting a larger population.
N America has a wider range of natural resources useful to industry: iron, copper, etc..., but those require industrial methods to obtain and refine, so it was more conducive to the industrialized Europeans, as was the temperate climate. Central America was hot, and S America tended to alternate between rain forests and and temperate with very craggy topography, not ideal for industrial activity.
The rising industrialization also drew a lot of European immigrants during the late 1800's and early 1900's. Almost none went to central and S America.
It's not so much that fewer native Americans survived in N America, more that the Europeans heavily populated N America due to industrial growth. This reduced the percentage dramatically, not the overall number of natives, while central and S America didn't see near the population explosion, because the conditions there weren't conducive to industrial development.
As for the idea that the Spanish and Portugese were somehow 'kinder', that ignores the African slave trade. Central and S America were rich in one resource: gold and silver. This may be one reason the central and S American nations flourished: gold and silver are easy metals to refine and work with, well within the capability of pre-industrial societies. A primary reason both metals became the first forms of currency.
And it was the gold and silver mines that consumed the vast majority of Africans in the Atlantic slave trade.
Destination of the ten million Africans taken to the American continent:
Portuguese America 38.5%
British America (minus North America) 18.4%
Spanish Empire 17.5%
French Americas 13.6%
British North America 6.45%
Dutch West Indies 2.0%
Danish West Indies 0.3%
The N Americans of African descent have increased in percentage, to around 11% of the total population. The former British colonies of Jamaica and Haiti are currently populated by people largely of African descent. In both cases, most of the slaves survived and lived long lives.
Yet, in the former Spanish and Portugese colonies, the percentage of people of African descent today is quite low, despite the fact that over 70% of the 10 million Africans brought to the American continent went there.
Why? Because most of them were dead within a year, victims of the harsh conditions in the mines, and the very hot and humid climate where the gold and silver were located. The Spanish and Portuguese had calculated that a slave only had to live one year to return the expense of their slavery. This also accounts for why the vast majority of Africans were taken to Portuguese and Spanish territories: the death rate was so high.
That is an act of genocide, in the five to six million death range, for which the Spanish and Portuguese have never been held accountable. So the idea that the Catholic faith protected people, doesn't hold up when all relevant factors are considered.
tj1000tj1000
I think immigration patterns are also a significant factor. There was a huge spike in immigration* starting around the time of the California Gold Rush, and increasing after the Civil War. Most of these immigrants settled in cities, or in California (where the Spanish had pretty well eliminated the native tribes), where they had little opportunity to interact with the Indian people. Thus the older intermarried population was eventually outnumbered by descendants of more recent immigrants, and when the two groups intermarried in their turn, the Indian ancestry was often forgotten.
*See graph & figures here: http://askville.amazon.com/immigration-patterns-1800's/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=7856221
jamesqfjamesqf
Easy to answer. The USA and Canada committed GENOCIDE against the indigenous population on a large scale. The Spanish converted and integrated the Natives, even if it was at the bottom (unfair conditions), and that's why there are more indigenous people in Central and South America.
Lars Bosteen
Gloria RodríguezGloria Rodríguez
Suggest you provide evidence of such genocide. Of course there were wars, as always when two or more groups of people want the same territory. (There were wars between different North American Indian groups, before & after the Europeans came.) When the Europeans won these wars, they seldom if ever carried the victory to the extent of genocide, as in fact that there are over 500 recognized tribes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federally_recognized_tribes with populations ranging up to 300K, plus an uncounted number of mixed-race individuals. (I happen to be one.) – jamesqf Mar 27 '15 at 19:26
Because latin america was colonized by catholic countries. In 1547 Sublimis Deus encyclical pope declares indigenous population to be rational beings with souls, denouncing any idea to the contrary as directly inspired by the Satan. He goes on to condemn their reduction to slavery in the strongest terms, declaring it null and entitles their right to liberty and property, and concludes with a call for their evangelization.
North America was colonized later by protestants, so native population didn't get any protection. During the Age of Enlightenment a progressive at the time idea of Polygenism was already widespread among protestants and atheists alike. Because of the encounters with different races, many people could not believe that they had the same ancestry. Many people like Thomas Harriot and Walter Raleigh, theorized a different origin for the Native Americans.
To the answers already provided, I would add the fact that the concentration of Latin and South American native populations in geographically compact and accessible states made it possible for them to be conquered and subjugated in relatively quick engagements.
Spain was able to move from the coast(s) to the nerve centers of the Aztec and Inca civilizations with dramatic speed. They were also able to decapitate each civilization, due to their relatively centralized structures. They then moved into the power gap created by those decapitations, and became the rulers of large subject populations.
In North America, the native populations were neither centralized nor easily geographically accessible from the coasts, other than to a limited extent in the vicinity of the St. Lawrence seaway. When the British and French set up colonies, large native populations avoided immediate subjugation as a result. So rather than being immediately conquered and ruled, the native populations of North America retained their independence for literal centuries - and spent those centuries in a slow war of attrition against the European colonies, states and populations. That war of attrition was ultimately more demographically destructive than Spain's quick conquests.
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CBE Home News Centre New School Named Sibylla Kiddle School
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New School Named Sibylla Kiddle School
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CALGARY – Sibylla Kiddle School is the name of the new elementary school being built in the community of Cranston. The Board of Trustees of the Calgary Board of Education approved the name for this school, expected to open in September 2020.
Sibylla Kiddle (1919-2010) was a Crescent Heights High School graduate. In 1936, she completed her teacher training and began teaching in a one-room school south of Calgary where she taught three daughters of the Cranston family. Kiddle married Lloyd Cranston in 1940.
After a break from teaching to raise her two children, Kiddle became a kindergarten teacher for the Calgary Board of Education. In her free time, she enjoyed knitting and handicrafts that she would donate. As an active member of the Rebekah Lodge, Kiddle baked for patients at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre and volunteered many hours performing eye exams for kindergarten children.
The school naming committee recommended this name to the Board of Trustees after gathering and evaluating stakeholder input on possible names. The school naming committee is comprised of CBE Trustees, parent and/or community representatives and members of CBE administration.
Sibylla Kiddle School will serve students in Grades K-4 when it opens and expand to Grade 5 in September 2021.
Visit cbe.ab.ca/newschools for more information on the CBE's new schools.
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Trump threat of more China tariffs could hit consumer goods before Christmas
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to jack up U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods if the world's two largest economies fail to reach a trade deal could raise the price of cellphones, laptops, and toys less than two weeks before Christmas.
Trump on Tuesday said a trade deal with China was "close," but offered no details and warned that he would raise tariffs "substantially" on Chinese goods without a deal.
Stocks fell on Wednesday in Asia and Europe and initially in the United States as investors digested his comments. [L2N27S0OL]
Trump's threat was a reference to previously announced 15% tariffs on about $156 billion worth of Chinese-made consumer goods scheduled to take effect on Dec. 15, according multiple trade experts and a source close to the White House. Known as the "4B" list of goods https://www.strtrade.com/assets/htmldocuments/USTR%20301%20List%204B.pdf, those tariffs would hit video game consoles, computer monitors, Christmas decorations and other items often given as gifts.
White House advisers said last week the Dec. 15 tariffs would likely be averted if a "phase one" trade deal was reached. Trump's threat, and the markets' reaction, illustrate how volatile the trade talks between the United States and China remains, and how important they are to the global economy.
The Trump administration hoped to avert the Dec. 15 tariffs, if possible, said William Reinsch, a former senior U.S. Commerce official and trade expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
More so than previous tariffs, these would hit consumers particularly hard at a sensitive time, he said. "Trump does not want to do that right before Christmas. The optics would be terrible," he said.
While most goods that Americans will buy before Christmas had been shipped long before, the imposition of the tariffs could trigger some "opportunistic price increases" on the part of retailers, he added.
Reinsch and other experts said they still expected Washington and Beijing to reach a "phase one" agreement before that point, but the timing was looking less certain.
"We're in sort of a dangerous moment because both sides feel they have the upper hand, but I don't think the talks have collapsed," Reinsch said.
Trump could theoretically increase tariffs already imposed on $250 billion of Chinese goods, according to congressional aides, former U.S. officials, and trade experts. There is no indication the White House is considering that at this time.
Trump had agreed in October to skip raising those tariffs to 30% from the 25% rate in place now. That would affect goods ranging from industrial components and semiconductors to furniture and building supplies.
A 15% tariff on about $125 billion of goods that went into effect on Sept. 1, including flat-panel television sets, flash memory devices, smart speakers, Bluetooth headphones, bed linens, multifunction printers and many types of footwear, could also be increased, trade experts said.
People familiar with the discussions say that China has asked for these Sept. 1 tariffs to be removed completely.
Scott McCandless, principal at PwC, said he was still fairly optimistic about the two sides reaching a "phase one" deal, given the positive impact it would have on key constituencies such as farmers ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
More tariffs on consumer goods aren't likely, he said. "Consumers have been a bright spot in the economy, so they will want to avoid any impact on that," he said.
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