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Yigal Carmon (Hebrew יגאל כרמון) (born 1946) is the president and cofounder of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), an organization which monitors and translates Arabic and Persian publications; radio and TV broadcasts; and religious sermons into many languages and circulates them over the Internet.

Carmon was a colonel at Aman, the Israeli military intelligence service, and later counter-terrorism advisor to Israeli prime ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Yitzhak Shamir.

Biography
Yigal Carmon was born in Romania in 1946 and immigrated to Israel with his family at age four. He grew up in Hadera. In high school, he began to study Arabic, and eventually achieved native-level fluency. At age 18, he had his conscription to the Israel Defense Forces deferred so he could study as part of the Atuda program. After earning a degree in Orientalism from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he joined the IDF in 1968 and served in the Intelligence Corps until 1988, reaching the rank of Colonel.

From 1977 to 1981, he served as an adviser on Arab affairs to the Civil Administration in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. When Menachem Milson was appointed to serve as head of the Civil Administration, Carmon was appointed his deputy. After Milson resigned in September 1982, Carmon served as acting head of the Civil Administration until Shlomo Ilya was appointed to the position in 1983.

In 1988, Carmon was appointed adviser on counterterrorism for Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. Following the fall of the Shamir government in 1992, he served for a year as Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's counterterrorism adviser before resigning in 1993 due to his opposition to the Oslo Accords.  From 1991 to 1992 he was also a part of the Israeli delegation to peace negotiations with Syria in Washington.

In 1998, Carmon founded MEMRI.

Carmon has also testified before the US Congress and European parliaments.

Views

On reporting "difficult realities"
According to Ruthie Blum, writing in the Jerusalem Post, Carmon and MEMRI's translations of material appearing in the Arabic and Persian media, "have been received with a combination of angst and ambivalence on the part of the press and politicians who don't like what they're seeing."

Carmon relates that his experience of portraying difficult realities in the Arab-Muslim world: "In 1994-5, before MEMRI was formally established, I taped TV broadcasts of [ Palestinian Authority chairman] Arafat calling for jihad. The reaction to that tape was: 'Kill the messenger'...And I protested by saying, 'But it's not me [calling for jihad]; it's him [Arafat].'
To which they replied, 'That doesn't matter.'. Then one day, I asked a very senior journalist with whom I was friendly, 'Why are you criticizing our work? We're merely revealing the truth.' His reply is one I'll never forget: 'There is no such thing as truth,' he said. 'Every news item must be judged by the question of whom it serves. And you are serving the enemies of peace.'  Horrified, I retorted, "And you're the one who's considered the reliable journalist, while I'm seen as biased?' So he said, 'If you want to play naive, do it with someone else, not with me. You know I'm right.'
'No,' I said. 'I do not know that you're right. There is such a thing as truth, and it is impartial'

On the English version of Al-Jazeera TV
"If they copy the Arabic version...into English, then they will be committing suicide. Because the whole world will see what role Al Jazeera is playing in making the Muslim world extreme....[On the other hand, if the two channels were to take different stances on global issues, the organization would be] 'speak[ing] from two sides of its mouth'.

Criticism
Journalist Brian Whitaker has accused Carmon of presenting false testimony to Congress when he allegedly misrepresented a Gallup poll. Responding to his charge of having an agenda, Carmon wrote "You are right: we do have an agenda. As an institute of research, we want MEMRI to present translations to people who wish to be informed on the ideas circulating in the Middle East. We aim to reflect reality. If knowledge of this reality should benefit one side or another, then so be it."

Regarding Whitaker's criticism of Carmon's "political background", Carmon responded that:
"You continually refer to my supposed "political background" as if I had something to hide, and I wonder if I am your real target here. As a civil servant and adviser on counter-terrorism to both Yitzhak Shamir and Yitzhak Rabin, prime ministers from opposing camps, my role was not a political appointment. If your complaint is that I am Israeli, then please say so."

Carmon also questioned Whitaker's own biases, stating that:
I note your website is "Al-Bab", ("The Gateway" in Arabic). Would I be justified in concluding that you are not, in fact, completely neutral about the Middle East, even though you are Middle East editor of a national newspaper? I wonder how you would judge an editor whose website was called "Ha-Sha-ar" ("The Gateway" in Hebrew)?

Whilst not addressing this counterargument, Whitaker re-asserted his points about the misrepresentation of relevant Gallup poll.

Published works
A Pessimist's View of the Peace Process
Osama vs. Bush on Osama bin Laden and the 2004 US Election
Madrid Bluff? March 11, 2004 Madrid bombings NOT al Qaeda

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This article summarizes equations in the theory of waves.

Definitions

General fundamental quantities

A wave can be longitudinal where the oscillations are parallel (or antiparallel) to the propagation direction, or transverse where the oscillations are perpendicular to the propagation direction. These oscillations are characterized by a periodically time-varying displacement in the parallel or perpendicular direction, and so the instantaneous velocity and acceleration are also periodic and time varying in these directions.  (the apparent motion of the wave due to the successive oscillations of particles or fields about their equilibrium positions) propagates at the phase and group velocities parallel or antiparallel to the propagation direction, which is common to longitudinal and transverse waves. Below oscillatory displacement, velocity and acceleration refer to the kinematics in the oscillating directions of the wave - transverse or longitudinal (mathematical description is identical), the group and phase velocities are separate.

General derived quantities

Relation between space, time, angle analogues used to describe the phase:

Modulation indices

Acoustics

Equations

In what follows n, m are any integers (Z = set of integers); .

Standing waves

Propagating waves

Sound waves

Gravitational waves

Gravitational radiation for two orbiting bodies in the low-speed limit.

Superposition, interference, and diffraction

Wave propagation

A common misconception occurs between phase velocity and group velocity (analogous to centres of mass and gravity). They happen to be equal in non-dispersive media. In dispersive media the phase velocity is not necessarily the same as the group velocity. The phase velocity varies with frequency.

The phase velocity is the rate at which the phase of the wave propagates in space.
The group velocity is the rate at which the wave envelope, i.e. the changes in amplitude, propagates. The wave envelope is the profile of the wave amplitudes; all transverse displacements are bound by the envelope profile.

Intuitively the wave envelope is the "global profile" of the wave, which "contains" changing "local profiles inside the global profile". Each propagates at generally different speeds determined by the important function called the dispersion relation. The use of the explicit form ω(k) is standard, since the phase velocity ω/k and the group velocity dω/dk usually have convenient representations by this function.

General wave functions

Wave equations

Sinusoidal solutions to the 3d wave equation

N different sinusoidal waves

Complex amplitude of wave n

Resultant complex amplitude of all N waves

Modulus of amplitude

The transverse displacements are simply the real parts of the complex amplitudes.

1-dimensional corollaries for two sinusoidal waves

The following may be deduced by applying the principle of superposition to two sinusoidal waves, using trigonometric identities. The angle addition and sum-to-product trigonometric formulae are useful; in more advanced work complex numbers and fourier series and transforms are used.

See also

Defining equation (physical chemistry)
List of equations in classical mechanics
List of equations in fluid mechanics
List of equations in gravitation
List of equations in nuclear and particle physics
List of equations in quantum mechanics
List of photonics equations
List of relativistic equations
SI electromagnetism units
Wave equation
One-way wave equation

Footnotes

Sources

Further reading

Physical quantities
SI units
Physical chemistry
Equations of physics
Equations
Waves

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There's nothing new under the sun, as the Scriptures tell us. (Ecc 1:4-11). And sometimes it feels like nothing can surprise you. And then something does, and it can be a life-altering surprise, or it can be God, whispering to you.
A life with no surprises can get to be pretty dull. I've had some surprises lately and I kind of like it; sort of like it. I'm dealing with it! Ha-Ha! This Lent has been a pretty topsy-turvy Lent.
Coming to a realization can be a surprise, in an of itself. And that has occurred with me. I realized that when I left the Roman Church and embraced the Eastern Church, I did so by jumping in with both feet. I embraced the philosophy, theology, and practices of my Eastern Church wholeheartedly. I found repose, sweet and quiet repose, in the teachings of my eastern faith. We had a pastor who inculcated us fully in the philosophies and traditions (both types of traditions) of the eastern Church, and he also showed us the whys and wherefores. We were blessed. The theological tenets of eastern practices and traditions were fully explained and made perfect sense to us. We completely embraced it all – culture, foods, traditions, practices. All of it – hook, line, and sinker. Our catechesis in the faith was truly remarkable. Now that we are away from that community, we see it even more fully. We miss it very much.
I distinctly remember a huge turning point for me and it was during a Divine Liturgy. The incense was pretty heavy and the light played just right through the windows…during the procession, the vestments just glowed and the sights, sounds, and smells just filled me. And then our Proto-Deacon intoned, "Sophia, Orthoi"! And I was transported to the times of the Apostles and the early gatherings of the nascent Church. And it was a transformative moment for me. I experienced my faith. And I was hooked – for eternity.
As I have learned more and more about Eastern thought and philosophy, a part of myself that had been empty began to be filled. And I did not even realize there was an empty space; a part of me unfilled. I do not need much of the traditions of the western church any more because I've become consumed by my faith, my experiential faith in the eastern Church. There are things called sacramentals in the west and two examples are scapulars and rosaries. You do not have to wear a scapular or recite the rosary to be fully Catholic. Those are things outside of dogma that enhance your faith experience, but they are not necessary to believe, to be in a state of grace. They are externals. They are almost "trappings" of our faith.
Most Roman Catholics own at least one rosary, even if they do not use it. In the mainstream church, very few people are even aware of what a scapular is, let alone wear one. I had a scapular in pretty much every color, using them for many reasons. They enhanced my spiritual life and I loved them. I always wore a miraculous medal, for example. Because I loved the story and loved the Mother of God. My middle son and his wife were laughing a couple of weeks ago, because they recently moved into their own space and were unpacking (finally) all their wedding gifts and they realized they have a crucifix for every room in their home, plus some to spare! It is part of our Catholic identity. It is a demonstration of who we are. People used to come into our home and ask where the altar was, because gradually all our artwork was religiously-oriented, with a crucifix in every room.
I feel that being an eastern Catholic identifies me first as being a part of a free-standing, independent Church, that happens to agree with Rome on many issues. It does not mean, however, that I embrace Roman theology or practice. I listen first to my Patriarch, and then check in on what the Pope has to say. I listen to my local ordinary before I ever pay attention to what the local Roman church or diocese is up to. Roman Catholicism does not affect my life. It is not part of who I am. I am also a Greek Catholic…that is another aspect that is different from the Roman Church. Greek versus Roman in many areas; it is just an area of influence and I prefer the Greek influence.
All of that being said, I know many will be angry with me because I am somehow "dissing" their beliefs. Not at all. Please do not think that way. I have children and grand-children who are Roman Catholic. It is a matter of preference and taste. I just discovered that I am really, and truly, eastern. A woman I just met did not understand how I did not know the movers and shakers in the local Roman Catholic scene. When I said to her, "But I am not Roman Catholic, I am Byzantine Catholic, why would I know them? I have no reason to attend a Roman church." Her response was, "Well, it doesn't really matter because we are all Catholic." And therein lies the crux of my problem. I was surprised because I realized I am really not Catholic, in the sense she inferred. I am not. I used to be, but I no longer am. I am a Melkite Greek Catholic, blessed to have been catechized in all things Greek and Byzantine.
There are little "t" things within eastern expression that I love and value. When I see the western expression coming in and being used in preference over the eastern ones, I get a little testy. I apologize for that. But once you immerse yourself in all things eastern, the western insistence on superiority or preference gets tiresome. It is the classic tale of David and Goliath. We easterners are David. If you are eastern, embrace it. Learn of all the richness of being a Byzantine, Greek Catholic. Learn about the physical history of how the eastern churches came to be. Live as an eastern Catholic. I can find fulfillment and riches enough to keep me learning for the rest of my life, if I read and study and learn from just the eastern philosophical/theological side of the aisle.
This is a touchy post because so many of my friends are Roman Catholic, as are two of my sons, and grandchildren. My Protestant family and friends will only be flummoxed by this post, but it is an issue and it is what I am dealing with. And I want people to know that different is not a better/worse sort of thing…it is just different. What I expect is that when we seek the mysteries for our children, when we want the blessing of the Church on our lives, we should live totally as if it were the most important thing in our lives. We don't drop in for Chrismation or Crowning, if we do not plan to live that life. We could get Confirmation or Marriage instead. Leading our children to God should be the supreme emphasis of our lives as parents. A long and winding road, full of contradictions and contradictory practices can be awfully confusing for the faith development of our children, and not having a firm foundation can lead to a young person having no place to stand where they feel safe.
I remember feeling that I was tip-toeing around when we had a major upset in our lives. By tip-toeing I mean I had no safe, solid place to stand. It was a "the ground was moving under my feet" sort of feeling. We were no longer welcome in our home parish because of an incident with a son of ours. People we thought were friends, were not. We were spiritually floundering because of the actions of some priests and religious in our lives. Our children were floundering. Our church had let us down in a profound way. And then we were led, by our son, to the east and to our pastor (who became a life-long friend and spiritual adviser). I believe God brought us to the east to save us, and to enhance the faith we thought we were loosing. The deepest wounds were being healed. The deepest longings were being met. That moment of "Sophia, Orthoi" became the life-line I was waiting for. And from that moment, I dove into the font of love I found in the eastern Church. Perhaps I am so eastern because of the pain and hurt experienced in the western Church. I can see that. But I also know that the theology of the East fills me. And the more I learn, all these years later, the more I want to know.
And when I see latinization creeping in to my Byzantine practices, I want to shore up the Church and enhance even more our Byzantine traditions, both large and small T. There are things Byzantine parishes do not do, purely because it is not, historically, who we are. We flounder with our identity because we are so small, and in recent years, made up largely of converts from the west. Converts, many of whom want to bring their familiar practices with them, and have not been fully catechized into the richness of the east. We have vespers; we have orthros; we have Divine Liturgy. We have so many amazing things. We do not have to inculcate Roman traditions into our parishes. However, there are just so many little ways westernization is creeping into our eastern practices and I really just do not want to see that. Otherwise, why be Byzantine? Why have Byzantine rites or Churches? If we are nothing more than a "different mass" with lots of incense, why bother?
And so when my little sheltered, Byzantine world is shaken, I blog! Ha-Ha! I feel that if I partake here and there of different traditions of the west and the east, I become a hodge-podge of nothing. "A cafeteria Catholic," if you will. A mixed bag of things that do not mesh well. Because their historical roots are so very different. My minor in college was Biblical Archeology and I love all things historical and all things physically historical. And when I dove into the east, I found history pretty much left alone, with artifacts intact. The liturgy is free of things I was leaving behind in the west. Many of the issues of the western church do not affect us in the east. It is because our view, our perspective, is just slightly different. And I love that difference; it's what drew me east. And it is what keeps me eastern. So the surprise that happened is that I discovered who I really am. I am a Byzantine Catholic. I am a Melkite Greek Catholic. That identity is mine and it is not going away. It is leading me along my own, personal, theosis track, where I will embrace my eternity. And it is doing so, holding the hand of my spouse, for eternity. The surprise is that I really know it; I really own it; and I will do whatever I can to protect it.
Last night a dear friend asked me to accompany her to the local hospital's NICU ward. For those of you who have never been to one, or know what that acronym stands for, it is a little slice of heaven where gifted doctors and nurses care for those least able to care for themselves, our newborns and preemies. (Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit). My friend and her husband are foster parents and we were visiting with the newborn they will soon be bringing home. She was there to outfit him with a car seat small enough to hold and protect him, and attend a class for parents on germs. I opted out of the class and made my way to the waiting area or, "family room," to wait for her to finish the class. While in the "family room" reading the newspaper, I met a man who was there from South Carolina, visiting his newborn twin granddaughters. The babies each weighed a pound. He shared photos of them with me, showing him holding one of the girls. She completely fit in the palm of his hand. I cried. I cried for the miracle of that photo. When I was birthing my babies, and loosing so many of them, a baby that size would not have survived. Science has changed so much in the past 30 years, especially in the care of premature babies.
When we were finally able to go and actually see the baby, we first had to de-contaminate ourselves. That process was interesting! Once we finally got on the baby's floor, it was so quiet! We walked into that room and when I saw that little isolette with that tiny baby in it, tears just rolled down my face. That little man weighed barely 5 pounds and was already more than 2 months old. The interesting thing is that he was not due for another 4 weeks, yet. It was wonderful to meet the nurses caring for these little babies. They love what they do. They have a heart for these most vulnerable among us, and they are kind, gentle, and loving to all of them.
My friend was able to change the baby's diapers and then settle in to feed him a bottle. I sat next to her, and I started to quietly weep. I have lost babies that size. I have mourned the loss of my babies, and I think because of that, I just felt so connected to this little guy. When he smiled, my heart just melted. Here he was, still supposed to be tucked safely inside his mommy, holding my finger and smiling at me. What a miracle of life, and modern medicine. And my heart started to race when I realized – it is still legal pretty much anywhere in our country, to abort a baby this size. My friend looks at me and says, "Don't you start crying, because I will, too." And we both smiled at this little gift of life from God. How could anyone hurt a baby this tiny? He was no lump of tissue; he was no "inconvenience" in the life of his mother. He was born far, far too soon; at least his birth mother chose life for him.
Each of us has been vulnerable in our lives. Many of us still are. But holding that little baby in my scrubbed and itching arms brought me back to the times when I needed the most care, when I was the most vulnerable, and I was thankful for the people around me, who cared for me. Each day is a miracle because we woke up. Father Justin Rose, a dear friend and our former pastor, has a saying and it is, "You are not guaranteed your next breath." That quote always brings me up short, because my days are definitely getting shorter. I'm no longer that crazy, young woman or little girl. I'm a wife, mother, sister, daughter, grandmother, mother-in-law, friend. But there are many things I no longer am…I am no longer someone's grand daughter, because that generation has all been laid to rest and I'm certainly no longer a girl, or a teenager. I am still a daughter, but not for many more years. Those things that I was, I will never be again. And there are not many other things I will become, as I edge nearer and nearer to my last breath. I read an article written by a woman who cares for the dying and in it she spoke to the 5 things you regret when you die: Working too much; not living the life we want, but living what others want for us; wishing you had been able to express your feelings; staying in touch with friends; and letting yourself be happier (http://www.lifebuzz.com/5-regrets/). The list seems simple enough, and yet, how many of us do these 5 things?
Last night, holding that little man in my arms, I thought of all the things in life I have not done, and I am pretty happy with the things I have done. I try to live as regret-free as I can. I wish I had pursued the things I wanted, more than what my parents and others wanted for me (like choosing the wrong major in college, again and again!!). I think I should have taken the time to write the "great novel" or something along those lines. I realize, as I gain wisdom, how truly little I know. Learning should never stop. I am grateful for the love of my family and close friends, and I am extremely grateful for the gift of my faith. I know, without any regrets or doubts, that I am living the life of faith God intended for me. I am content. And I have realized that I can still be surprised at things, I can still learn things, and I can still love new people. It is amazing, our capacity for love. I try to be open to the new things I see in life, the new experiences, the new life buzzing around me. The oncoming Spring is bringing with it a sort of excitement. The dark of winter is slowly being replaced by days of 12+ hours of sunshine. The snow is melting – I actually saw grass this morning! The world is turning and new life is all around us. Lent is an amazing time of reflection and coming out of Lent is a time we run smack-dab into the promise of eternal life. The Cross is born by Christ for us, and we all add to the weight of that Cross. We all hoist our own cross on our shoulders and trudge through the winter to the Spring, and the promise of eternity.
Seeing and appreciating the fragility of new life and how we all enter the world that way, reminded me that eventually, we all leave life in the same way – dependent on others for our care, perhaps even the very air we breathe. We leave the world a shriveled vestige of what we once were. Isn't it so interesting to think that we come in this world dependent on others and leave the same way? I know some are taken rapidly, without need for palliative or any other sort of care. But most of us just sort of fade. And as I look closer at the sunset, and realize that my days are truly numbered, I pray to look forward to it with peace in my heart. I pray that nothing was left untried that I truly wanted to do and that I loved the best I could, loving everyone around me.
Through the grace of our Baptism, Chrismation, and reception of the Holy Communion, God is with us. He is also there to comfort us with sacramental anointing when we feel weak and vulnerable. This Lent, I am remembering my own vulnerability, praying for those among us who are completely vulnerable and weak, and daring to open my heart to all of God's children.
Feeling a little vulnerable today in light of the miracles I witnessed yesterday. Definitely humbled by those miracles and the working of God in that hospital and the dedicated staff seeing to those babies. God's blessings often overwhelm me with the sublime beauty of it all. Blessed Lent.
Today I am seeking my anchor! Often when my heart is hurting, I seek comfort in prayer. I light incense in the house, I look to my favorite icons, and I seek counsel from friends whose opinions I trust. But I have to start my day on my knees (figuratively speaking). And it is one of those days. The irony is that yesterday was a day for Gaga (the name my oldest grandson gave me) heaven! I babysat both my grandchildren for the entire day. I was so thrilled. I got to play trucks with my two-year old grandson, and I got to coo at and cuddle with my 4-month old grand daughter. I even remembered all the words to, "I know an old lady who swallowed a fly"!! That was my youngest son's favorite song for me to sing to him while I rocked him to sleep for naps! It was a great day…today, not so much.
There is an aspect to my life that some people do not understand. My parents did not really understand, and that is okay. I always wanted a large family. I came from a small one that spanned several oceans, and was scattered across three continents and was decidedly British in oh so many ways! No aunts, no uncles, no cousins. Which is completely the opposite experience of my husband! He comes from a very large, very close, ethnically-rich German-Russian family. And both my husband and myself wanted a large family of our own. We even tried to scare each other away while dating! (I want six kids…how many do you want? Well, I want 8 kids! Ha-Ha!). God had other plans for us. From the very start, we had trouble conceiving and keeping our babies and have lost 7 children in various stages of miscarriage. I longed for a full, noisy, messy, chaotic household and in answer to that, we became foster parents. The training was intimidating, in and of itself. It makes you wonder how your natural children were still breathing and in one piece. We prayed about fostering, and we worked on it, and finally we were licensed. Fostering is a special thing. It is not for the faint-of-heart, nor for the unprepared. We got our home ready, but it was our minds and hearts that were unprepared. What were we unprepared for? This wash of completely unrequited love that just overflowed for these children left in our care. Most of their stories were sad beyond our experience. For most, it was the first time they had ever experienced life in an intact family. And they clung. Boy oh boy, did they cling. And to these kids, race was not even an issue. I had care of two brothers once who called me, "Mommy" from the first moment I held them. They were African American boys from the inner city. They arrived in the night, in footed-jammies and diapers, and that was it! We lived in the suburbs, next to orange groves. They had no idea what oranges were. They brought me one and said, "Mommy-mommy! Look! Orange balls that fell off that tree! Can we keep them?" I had to show them that they were for eating. They had never had a meal that was NOT in a paper sack until they lived with us. The baby was used to drinking coca-cola out of his bottle. For dinner one night, I accidentally cut up a slice of pizza for the baby and he had a fit! Screamed at me. He was used to the whole slice. They both regressed into early infancy, wanting to be held and fed and diapered, rocked to sleep, and comforted; something common for most neglected and abused children. They were soaking up all the cuddling, warmth, security, and love they never had as small babies. And when they were wrenched from my arms, screaming, "Mommy, mommy, don't let them take me!!" I about lost my mind from grief. They were removed because the maternal grandparents saw us once, and saw we were white. From incarceration, the mother requested "no white families." It was so very sad. In the area in which we lived, foster families of color were few and far between. Fostering takes courage and fortitude, and learning to be an advocate for these kids. We loved/hated it. It messed with my older boys' heads in that they fell in love with their new "siblings" only to have them taken away, and it was not something they wanted to repeat over and over again. And so in the best interests of our family, we stopped fostering. We had been licensed for drug babies and small children and that darn phone rang and rang, with placement requests, for at least a year after we discontinued our licensing.
A couple of years later, through the grace of God and some amazing friends, we welcomed and fell in love with, and adopted our youngest son. He was just a couple of hours old and in the hospital when I first met him, and when he was laid in my arms, the floodgates of love opened in my heart. He was mine…no one else would take him away. I cannot express the gamut of emotions that have come from having him in our family – for all of us. Our older sons loved him so much, they insisted the three of them all be in the same room – late night crying of an infant and all. The oldest of our sons took to sleeping with the baby when he was a toddler; they grew very close. It was a beautiful thing to see. Our middle son had a few years with just he and our youngest at home (the older one had grown and left home) and they bonded something fierce. It was so fun to see them together, the little one trailing after his brother. And we have never looked back. We never treated the son who was given to us differently than the sons we birthed. He is ours as much as they are.
When we purposefully adopt a child, we become pretty darn protective of that child. Even more so, I think, because they are adopted. In our case, we are a different race than our youngest son, and it has always proved to be an issue. The issue is for other people – not our family or close friends. Our older family members often questioned the wisdom of adopting outside of our race, but we never even thought about it. I never think of it, until someone brings it to my attention. A funny incident happened when my mom met him for the first time. He was just 20 days old. We brought him to Christmas Eve at my brother's house. I guess I had forgotten to mention his race when I was all bubbly and excited over the phone. You "could have knocked her over with a feather" when she opened that blanket. She said, "You forgot to mention he wasn't white." And I looked at her, then at him, and said, "I totally forgot that part, I guess." We laughed but when you adopt, you just love. It doesn't matter the gender or the race, it is a child who needs you. You just love.
"You know, I was asked once by an NPR reporter why I don't talk about race that often. And I said it's because I'm a neurosurgeon. And she looked at me quite quizzically. And I said, 'You see, when I take someone to the operating room and I peel down the scalp and take off the bone flap and open the dura, I'm operating on the thing that makes the person who they are.' It's not the covering that makes them who they are," he said.
I love Dr. Ben Carson, and I love what he said above. "It's not the covering that makes them who they are." And I truly believe that. I have run into prejudice in all sorts of forms. I personally have experienced it, and fairly recently, in fact. Not to be too blunt about it, but I am an obese woman. I could drop 100 pounds and still want to loose a little more. (But I have a great personality! Ha-Ha!) Seriously, I am heavy: I live with it each and every day. And the world ignores overweight people; they generally don't really see us. I have experimented with hair color, length, style. Only when I went from curly to straight, did people say anything. And when I quit dyeing my hair and just decided to live with the gray, I only got a few comments (and they were mostly from people my age who are not ready to that, yet!) For important events, I often wear make-up, and usually on Sundays, or when attending an important function. No one ever notices. No one notices when I plan and prepare and then wear a particular outfit that I think looks good. People do not see me. It is rather annoying and I long for the day of thinness to return. But it annoys me, that to be noticed, I need to be thin. "It's not the covering that makes them who they are," as Dr. Carson would say. But in our culture, it very much is. And that is a form of prejudice!
Which brings me to my need to cling to my anchor of prayer today. Our youngest, most precious, son is experiencing prejudice. Now, sometimes you just can't help stupid people; they are pretty much everywhere. And I usually ignore prejudice born from ignorance and stupidity. When I get mad is when people purport to (1) be a Christian, (2) are in a position of leadership, (3) have the responsibility to be an example to young people. Prejudice is most often one of race. But prejudice exists in many forms. My parents think I am going to hell because I am not a born-again Christian, who believes like they do and they are prejudiced against Catholicism. Sad. Other types are like what I experience being overweight. People can be downright rude about it. It can also be about ability. I have friends, and many who foster parent can relate to this, who have children who run the spectrum of FAS (Fetal Alcohol Syndrome) to extremely autistic, to pretty much everything in between. There are children with special needs, who are not in wheelchairs or use crutches or canes, or who have amputated limbs, who operate pretty much like normal, until they are in certain situations (like formal state testing, for example). They seem normal, so people do not expect issues with them and berate them for being "slow" or "stupid." There are those who use such derogatory language around children, who soak it up like a sponge, that in turn learn to use it on other kids. It is a big, ugly cycle.
And guess what? It's still Lent!!!! We have something like 25 days left. And why did this all come to a head now? God placed it in this time and place for my benefit. Wow. It's pretty amazing. Lent is an amazing time for all of us, and this Lent, He is asking me, leading me, to be a better person.
And so I wrestle with myself; I am doing a lot of deep breathing, and trying to relax. I return to my anchor among these waves of prejudice and poor example, and I drop to my knees and I pray. This affects my son's future, it affects his now; it also affects every person involved, now and in the future. And I know that I am not enough; I know I need God to handle this for me. His wisdom, not mine. He must increase, so I must decrease. His words, not mine. For God suffered prejudice on a Cross, for me. Thanks be to God. Blessed Lent.
So, as I posted before, "What do we do with it?" I am still trying to share as much as I can of what I am given; especially with my faith. When we move around in life, we have the opportunity to learn from our environment and the people we meet. We can choose to disregard these opportunities, or we can embrace them.
I came up with a theory for myself years ago and it is based on the old-fashioned pinball machines. (I guess that sort of dates me!). There was this awesome pinball machine at a pizza place our sons' soccer teams always went to for parties, etc. It was an outer space-oriented game and I could actually play it. Once the games started getting more computerized, I lost my touch! Ha-Ha! Anyway, the point is that we are like those silver-toned balls in the machines. We are launched into life and we bang into people and places along our way. Some of these interactions score big points, others we would prefer to have avoided. They are hazards or bumpers! Occasionally, we get to start over, if we are lucky, and still amass our points. But regardless of how we are launched each time, we keep on banging into all sorts of different hazards and blessings.
Once we get to a certain age, we sort of feel like we've got the hang of this thing called "life." We make decisions and choose things in life based on our understanding of where we fit in all of this. Sometimes our choices look stupid or erroneous to those around us, and we often do make mistakes. One of the things that has become more clear as time has moved along is that these choices we make are solely ours. We cannot blame how we were launched, how many tries we got at this, or who launched us. Basically, we are responsible for our own misery or happiness. We cannot continue to blame others and to rest on paltry excuses.
And that is where faith and our prayer life come into play for us. We rely on God and try to "listen" to his promptings in our lives. Sometimes it is hard to hear Him because, unfortunately (and to carry this theme even further – sorry, I couldn't help it!) we hear and see all "those buzzers and bells" in life. And for most of us, we don't realize how much noise there is, between our hearts and God. We get distracted!
Quite often we need the quiet, the silence, the alone-time to re-connect to God. He is waiting for us, ever-patient, ever-understanding, ever-on our side. We are the ones wandering all over the place. Like I said above, moving around in life can be a positive, growth experience, sort of thing. Or it can be something that hinders us. It is all a matter of choice and free will. I am discovering through this Lenten period of reflection, that I have brought lots of things with me, emotionally, psychologically, and theologically, from all the places and people I have run into through my life. It has created within me the fabric of my "prejudice" – the place from which I view life. We all have it. We all make decisions based on our own worldview or prejudice. And it colors my world – and sometimes not for the better. When our own worldview becomes too entrenched, we are unable to learn. We feel conflict unless people have our exact, same, viewpoint. And trust me, with the myriad of options in life, not to mention the endless combinations inherent in genetic make-up, there is no exact match to any of us – it is part of the beauty of creation! Individuals, each with free will, trying to get along. And each of us trying to make our way through this life, to our eternities. I am praying my eternity is one shared with God.
"But I say to you who hear, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. "Whoever hits you on the cheek, offer him the other also; and whoever takes away your coat, do not withhold your shirt from him either. "Give to everyone who asks of you, and whoever takes away what is yours, do not demand it back. "Treat others the same way you want them to treat you. "If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. "If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. "If you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners in order to receive back the same amount. "But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He Himself is kind to ungrateful and evil men. "Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
My continued prayers that this Lenten period be one of growth and prosperity in seeking a closer relationship with God. I am blessed and I appreciate this time each year so much. For me, the trick is to keep moving forward, keep learning, and to not repeat old patterns once the Great Fast has completed itself. Fasting is a time for quiet reflection, and not just a time when we leave food habits aside, but a time when we take on new, and better, traits worthy of a child of God. Blessed Lent!
I had a nice chat with my mom today. She is 83 and lives in a retirement facility in Southern California. I always get, "It's so pretty here. The sky is so blue and not a cloud in the sky! It's going to be a gorgeous day today." I am loosing my mom a little more each day; she has Alzheimer's and the progression is inevitable. Sometimes we have a fruitful conversation and we don't repeat for, perhaps, 10 minutes. And then it's back to, "It's so pretty here. The sky is so blue…" Today she kept saying, "It doesn't matter where you go, you pay a price for where you live" at every opportunity she could wedge it in. She gets on kicks like that and we just have to talk it all the way out, so she can move on. She told me at least three times that she was getting dressed for lunch. And, "Well, I could have it worse. It's a pretty nice place. But of course, you pay a price for where you live, you know." Ha-Ha. I love her so much. At least she is happy and seems content. Gradually, as with all Alzheimer patients, you just stop thinking about what you forget and it eventually becomes lost in a haze forever. Even now, as my mom is at lunch with her friends, she does not recall we spoke today. It is a horrible disease.
And as God is good and would do something for my happiness, I no sooner hung up with my mom than my daughter-in-law came by for a drop-in visit with my grandchildren. It made my day. And as I sat holding my 4-month-old grand daughter, I reveled in the marvelous relationship building with both her and my daughter-in-law. (Actually, I am blessed with two amazing women who married my sons. They could not have found better mates! I feel like I now have two daughters, but more importantly, two friends). And as I held my grand daughter and watched her giggles, drools, and smiles, I fell in love all over again. I thought of the wonderful thread of lives, all the generations, in fruition in my grand daughter. "And I make all things new." God re-energizes our family each time it grows and expands. And each time I am presented with a grandchild, my heart expands again, re-energizing me and filling me with love.
I told my mom this morning that I think I was born to be a grandmother. This particular time of my life, right now, and in the coming years, are my best. I love some of the early years when my boys were young and we lived on a dairy farm. Those days are precious to me, and I look on them as my "good old days." It was carefree in a way I haven't had since. All that taken into consideration, I think I have grown to be a better person over the years and am disposed to my grandchildren much better because of the times gone by. Of course, I still have a 15-year-old at home, so I am also still raising a young man, and that helps me relate to my older sons and their wives in a way I never thought I would have. It is a difference and it's like we're becoming friends, and I love it!
"For everything there is a season…" Ecclesiastes 3 has so much wisdom to share. We all have times in our lives where certain things are appropriate. We grow to fill the time we occupy. For example, one of my mom's favorite sayings is, "Children are for the young." I didn't fully appreciate that until I grew into my late 50s. And now I have patience and time for children, but even more so, I have boundless patience and time for my grandchildren. I know I am blessed!
In our lives, the cycles move…and they don't stop because we would like them to. They keep on moving; that clock keeps ticking. I like to explain it as a "generational shift." One day you look around your life and realize you are now your mother; she is now your grandmother, and your children are now you. Your place and perspective have changed; you moved up a rung. And it feels odd sometimes, because you feel like a teenager in your head, but when you look in the mirror, the gray hair and wrinkles remind you that you so are not. (Even if you still secretly feel like you're still "cool" and can rock it! Ha-Ha!!).
As I struggle through Great Lent this week, I keep my eye focused on the prize: my eternity. God and His Church gives me this time every year to stop and re-focus my energies and my daily life onto my eternity. It is a time for reflection, for prayer, for penance, and for almsgiving. For me, almsgiving has always been something more of the heart than of the wallet. Some of the most satisfying days I have ever enjoyed were shopping at the local food bank and buying food to make for our homeless and needy population, who surrounded our parish in SoCal. I would go to the local foodbank and fill my suburban to the brim and load up my two boys still at home, and off we would head to the parish. I would set them up with a table and chairs to do their schoolwork (homeschooling mom here) and then I would head to the kitchen. I loved the afternoons of chopping, slicing, and dicing with the other ladies of our parish. We had such a great time. And that type of almsgiving, to me, is just so satisfying. We were making a difference in our community. I miss those days. And during Lent, the people who came to be fed knew we fasted, and they loved how we made fasting food that tasted good! They often stayed to listen to Evening Prayers (Vespers) we had after we had cleaned up. The candles, the incense, drew them in and gave them a respite from the ugliness out there.
I am here, I am still me. My zip code is really different than last Lent. My entire life is upside down. The view is drastically changed, as well as the environment I find myself in. I left all that was familiar, and so many relationships. I miss my friends, but I have also been taught the value of friendship and who are my true friends. As my mom said today, "It doesn't matter where you go, you pay a price for where you live." She is so right-on ('Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.' Job 32:7) but I should not be surprised. Lots of people in my mom's life chose to ignore her for her intelligence (she was usually eclipsed by someone else around her) but she always had wise things to say, if you but sat and listened to her. Her tongue was sharp, as was her mother's before her, but once she aged, she imparted more wisdom than vinegar! And now I find myself listening to her today and thinking on her wise words to me. She misses me because I am so far away, but she understands my need to go. She left New Zealand to come to America with my dad; she knows what it is like to leave all you know for the unknown, and how to make a life where you are, still retaining who you are, while remaining open to new things.
I was doing long-overdue laundry yesterday and I mistakenly thought my back was healed enough to lift a full laundry basket. Stupid-stupid-stupid. But I took charge and immediately took 1/2 a Vicodin and put my feet up. Everyone was gone here and there for the evening, and I was all by myself. My middle son (they live in CA) was sending me current photos of my grand daughter (she is 10 months old and growing so fast) and some videos of her crawling around. My eldest son's wife sent me St. Patrick's Day photos of my two grandies up here (aged 4 months and 2 years) to my phone while I was video/texting with my other son, and I just started to cry. I was boo-hooing like a crazy woman. Partially from Vicodin and pain, I am sure, but also because I love my family so much, and I miss having them all around me. The hen's chicks were scattered and she was not happy about it. And then I realized I was being rather maudlin. I looked it up to be sure, and yep, that was me!
Emotions are good things, but they can run away with us. We always need to get ourselves together. Last night, I started printing some photos of my grandies that my kids had sent me, and I re-arranged my refrigerator magnets so I could update what I had up there. My world had been looking so colorless with our recent snow storm and white all around us outside, and I had removed the last twinkling lights (credit where credit is due – my husband took them down for me) and our house looked sort of blank. So printing my new grandies' photos and putting them up made me smile. They are so stinking cute! By the time they were up and my refrigerator's outside was clean and organized, I felt much better. I was filled with a thankfulness that threatened to overwhelm me into babbling again, so I sat down and read a book! But I know, deeply, that I am blessed and that the love I feel for my family just keeps growing and growing.
A wonderful Orthodox comment on marriage is: "…marriage affords us the opportunity to become a part of something more than ourselves. From this God-given institution, a new relationship is formed, and from this willful joining together, two lives are prayerfully bound together, families emerge, and life continues." There is something so sublime and sweet in that perspective. Our lives are bound by prayer. In the Orthodox/Byzantine wedding, no vows are exchanged. The couple does not marry each other, rather, the priest confers the mystery upon them, through faith. The Orthodox have this to say, "From an Orthodox perspective, this liturgical action (the prayers said and the rings given) serves to seal the couple's commitment. No vows are requested or required. The couple's silent participation in this rite presupposes their commitment, and from an Orthodox perspective is a more than sufficient witness of their dedication to one another." At one part of the Orthodox/Byzantine marriage ceremony, the couple is escorted by the priest, in the company of their sponsors, around the outer table three times: "After the couple drink from the Common Cup, the priest, couple and sponsor will process around the table. In earlier times, this procession took place from the church to the couple's home. Today it takes place round the table in the center of the Solea that is located in front of the Icon Screen. Holding the Gospels in his right hand, the priest will guide everyone around the table three times while three hymns are chanted. As the couple follows the priest, their journey together begins, but it is not a journey that they will take alone. The Gospel Book that the priest holds, as well as the presence of their guests, serves to remind them that they have chosen to walk through life with the Holy Trinity and other faithful like themselves." I also love the symbology of the three times around the table – to remind us of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
When we were going to celebrate our 25th anniversary, we chose to have a crowning ceremony. (That is a close-up of our actual crowns above). I told my husband that it was the last time I was marrying him because we were married by a priest 25 years ago (at that time), we had a blessing by a priest when we got back to SoCal for family and friends who could not join us in Colorado, and on our 10th anniversary we journeyed to Nevada with our kids and renewed our vows in a Church with a dear friend, who happens to be a bi-ritual Syro-Malabar priest, attending us (It was so nice, just us, our children, and Fr. Jose Isaac). I figure we are so married, there is no getting out of it, right? And then we began to delve into the Byzantine/Orthodox view of marriage. I fell in love all over again. "Above and beyond the legal, psychological and sociological dimensions of marriage that society typically identifies, the Church expands the definition of marriage and describes it as a holy union whereby a man and woman struggle together toward sanctification and eternal life within a community of faithful." We struggle toward our sanctification together. We hold hands through all of it. That sort of commitment could never be undertaken through the capriciousness of emotion. Emotions, like my being maudlin last night, come and go. They are fueled by our minds, how we react to stimuli around us, and from our spiritual perspective. If we base something like eternity on emotion, we are in for a very rocky ride.
The issue, as I see it, is that we have this skewed view of marriage as only a contract. And contracts can be broken. We have civil divorce and we have Church annulments. (As an advocate for the Tribunal, I do understand much of this controversial subject). There are things that make a marriage in civil court; there are things that make a marriage for a Tribunal, which enable a ruling of validity or non-validity. Sometimes, actually, most times, these things are worlds apart. The issue, as I see it, is that the idea that marriage is a contract, devoid of emotion and the process of sanctification, fulfills a worldly perspective on the institution, but devoids it completely of the sublime and peaceful, beautiful, sacramental thing we enter into through faith, in front of our family, friends, and faith community.
We believe the Church bestows these sacraments, these mysteries upon us as a way of celebrating God's institution of marriage. In regards to Mr. Cuomo's statement that we "don't own marriage," and that "it was not devised by Christians," well I would have to heartily disagree. Because the world has set God off to the sidelines, of course he would feel "it's a civil situation; it's secular." And for that and it being what it is, I agree with him. For those of us who pursue a marriage in a Church and want that sort of "blessing" on the whole thing, we need, as a culture, to realize what that means. There's the rub…because God is on the sidelines and we only call Him in when we want to confer a sacrament (as in, "We've always been Catholic. Even though I don't go to Church, I need to be married in Church"…or "I need my child baptized because my family has always been Catholic. No, I don't go to Church.") we often feel like if we want it "un-done" we can do that, in a court of law. Entering into a sacramental marriage requires foreknowledge and agreement with what you are about to enter into. So many people, because God resides outside of their lives, do not live sacramentally at all. And that is when I would agree that their marriages have become purely a contractual thing, with no vestige of the faith they claimed to have.


The Virginia Fraternal Order of Police, the Commonwealth's largest organization of sworn law enforcement officers, today endorsed 2017 Republican nominee Ed Gillespie for governor. The endorsements add to Gillespie's growing support across the public safety community, including endorsements from a majority of Virginia sheriffs and the Virginia Police Benevolent Association.
In July, Gillespie released Job One: Keeping Virginia Safe, his plan to combat gangs, reinstate Project Exile and reward those who serve and protect. As governor, Gillespie will designate the Attorney General to Serve as the Commonwealth's Anti-Gang Chief, secure funding for the Northern Virginia Regional Gang Task Force, ban Sanctuary Cities in Virginia, expand the "Youthful Offender Program" at the Virginia Department of Corrections, ensure the continuation of school resource officers (SROs) in schools, pursue funding of the Witness Protection Programs in violent gang activity, establish Gang Prevention Programming at Department of Education, and develop Alternative Educational Opportunities for Known Gang Members.
Find a full list of endorsements here.


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Like a fine wine, Maya has aged well over the years. The last few updates have seen the inclusion of a host of significant new features including Bi Frost, XGen, Mudbox modelling toolsets, Grease Pencil and …... This tutorial will show a method for quickly setting up an HDRI lit scene in mentalray for Maya. HDRI stands for High Dynamic Range Image. Images of this type hold color intensity values beyond the black to white limits of a standard 8bit image file.
Before we can do that however, we have to create a material for our HDRi map. So head back into the Hypershade (Window > Rendering Editors > Hypershade) and click the Textures tab as …... 10/02/2004 · Hi When I set hdri map as the viewport backgroud(alt+b) I always instance it to the envioronment and than in the viewport backgroud dialog I check the "use envioronment map" option. Now in the viewport I want to rotate my camera around and see different part of the spherical hdri map,but I can see only the initial view of the map.
I created an HDRI file from 12 RICOH THETA V images and used it in the course. This video shows how to make the HDRI file with free software. I'm a Blender novice and had to watch Gleb's mouse movements a number of times.
This tutorial will show a method for quickly setting up an HDRI lit scene in mentalray for Maya. HDRI stands for High Dynamic Range Image. Images of this type hold color intensity values beyond the black to white limits of a standard 8bit image file.
For this tutorial you will need Maya with mentalray for scene setup and rendering, HDRI Shop with few hdri images to measure the light level and Photoshop to create the bitmaps for color scaling. In our first step we will examine one HDRI images with HDRIShop.
Digital-Tutors – Creating HDRI Environments for 3D Lighting in Photoshop and Maya . In this series of tutorials we will learn how to create HDRI environments for 3D lighting and use them in Maya and V-Ray to light a 3D asset.


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Obša () je řeka ve Smolenské a Tverské oblasti v Rusku. Je 153 km dlouhá. Povodí má rozlohu 2080 km².

Průběh toku
Pramení v Bělské vysočině. Na řece leží město Bělyj. Je to levý přítok Meži (povodí Západní Dviny).

Vodní stav
Zdroj vody je převážně sněhový. Průměrný průtok vody ve vzdálenosti 47 km od ústí činí 11,5 m³/s. Zamrzá v listopadu a rozmrzá na konci března až na začátku dubna.

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Řeky ve Tverské oblasti
Řeky ve Smolenské oblasti
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Una luz en el camino es una telenovela mexicana producida por MaPat López de Zatarain para Televisa en 1998. Es una adaptación de la serie infantil argentina El árbol azul.

Protagonizada por Guillermo Capetillo, Verónica Merchant y Mariana Botas, coprotagonizada por Eugenia Cauduro y Eduardo Verástegui y con las participaciones antagónicas de Susana Zabaleta, Ramón Abascal y Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez y la participación de los primeros actores Otto Sirgo, Luz María Aguilar y Mario Casillas.

Argumento
Ana Olvera, esposa de Rodrigo González De Alba y madre de la pequeña Luciana, muere de un aneurisma cerebral. Mientras tanto, la madre de Rodrigo, doña Clara, decide hacerse cargo de Luciana y tratar de llenar un poco el vacío que dejó su madre.

Al mismo tiempo, Marcela, una joven universitaria, egresa con su título de Psicología especializada en niños, con las mejores calificaciones de su promoción y con una oferta de trabajo para impartir clases en la universidad de la que se graduó. Marcela está a punto de casarse, pero desgraciadamente su prometido sufre un accidente aéreo y muere justo el mismo día que muere Ana Olvera.

Para Rodrigo y Marcela es difícil superar las muertes de sus seres queridos, por lo que tratan de refugiarse en sus respectivos trabajos. Sin embargo, Rodrigo ha olvidado algo primordial: pasar tiempo con su hija, a la que tiene muy abandonada desde la muerte de su madre.

Cinco años después, Luciana es ya una adorable niña de 7 años que vive con su abuela paterna. Por desgracia, doña Clara sufre un accidente automovilístico y queda en coma. Juan Carlos, el pediatra de Luciana y mejor amigo de Marcela, le aconseja a Rodrigo que lleve a la niña con una psicóloga infantil para que la ayude a superar cualquier cosa que pueda pasar con su abuela.

Es aquí cuando Luciana y Rodrigo conocen a Marcela, que tratará de ayudar a Luciana.

Luciana y Marcela se vuelven grandes amigas. La niña encuentra en Marcela el calor de una madre y nada le entusiasma más que ver a su padre y Marcela juntos. Pero no todo pinta bien para Luciana: pues Astrid, la novia de su padre, es una mujer frívola y de mal corazón, que desea casarse con Rodrigo para conseguir su dinero. En ausencia de Rodrigo, Astrid desprecia y maltrata a Luciana, quien se da cuenta de que si esa boda se realiza, ella será enviada a un internado en Europa y nunca volverá a ver a su padre.

Afortunadamente, Eliseo, un divertido ranchero que se convierte en gran amigo de Luciana, ayuda la niña a tenderle una trampa a Astrid. Rodrigo se da cuenta de la verdaderas intenciones de ésta y termina su compromiso. Luciana no podría estar más feliz, al igual que Rodrigo, quien por fin tiene el camino libre para conquistar a Marcela.

El campamento infantil está por iniciar, y a pesar de las constantes peticiones que el Padre Federico y Juan Carlos le hacen a Marcela para que sea la psicóloga del campamento, ésta se niega pues no quiere dejar sus consultas y menos a Rodrigo, con el que ha empezado una relación. Sin embargo, Astrid, quien quiere separar a la pareja a toda costa, manda incendiar el consultorio de Marcela y además la difama profesionalmente lo que provoca que la despidan de la universidad. Por último le tiende una trampa, que hace que Rodrigo rompa su relación con ella.

Es así como se desarrolla esta historia, en donde Rodrigo y Marcela terminarán siendo la nueva misión de Luciana, quien se encargará de mantenerlos juntos a pesar de todo para por fin tener la familia que tanto necesita.

Esto, entre muchas otras grandes aventuras que chicos y grandes vivirán en campamento El Pinar.

Elenco
 Guillermo Capetillo - Rodrigo González de Alba
 Veronica Merchant - Marcela Villarreal
 Mariana Botas - Luciana González de Alba Olvera
 Susana Zabaleta - Astrid del Valle
 Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez - Elodia Vidal
 Ramón Abascal - Renato
 Luz María Aguilar - Clara González de Alba
 Marta Aura - Chole
 Mario Casillas - Don Eliseo de la Garza
 Eduardo Verástegui - Daniel
 Eugenia Cauduro - Luisa Fernanda
 Orlando Miguel - Miguel
 María Marcela - Lorena
 Otto Sirgo - Padre Federico
 Graciela Döring - Margarita
 Tere López Tarín - Yolanda
 Archie Lafranco - Juan Carlos
 Arturo Barba - Enrique
 Fernando Nesme - José Ramón
 Bárbara Ferré - Mercedes
 Rolando Brito - Bruno San Martín
 Gretel Rocha - Paulina
 Naydelin Navarrete - Vicky de los Santos
 Mayte Iturralde - Lupita
 Luis Fernando Madrid - Pablito
 Roberto Marín - Marco
 Nicky Mondellini - Victoria de De Los Santos
 Perla Jasso - Bertha
 José Antonio Marros - Don Pablo
 Gabriel Mijares - Manolo
 Claudia Ortega - Hortensia
 Nayeli Pellicer - Celia
 Radamés de Jesús - Darío
 Silvia Eugenia Derbez - Magda
 Edmundo Ibarra - Germán
 Patricio Castillo - Tomás
 Antonio Escobar - Armando
 Benjamín Islas - Ismael
 Mickey Santana - Andrés
 Valerie Sirgo - Ivonne
 Óscar Traven - Luis Trejo
 Martha Navarro - Consuelo
 Andrea Legarreta - Ana Olvera de González
 Marcela de Galina - María Marcela
 Sergio Acosta
 Karla Kegel - Susana
 Paola Kegel - Silvana
 Nora del Águila
 Gabriela Aponte
 Joana Brito
 Julio Cann
 Bernardo Franco
 Mónica García
 Daisy Jaimes
 Sergio Jurado
 Beatriz Martínez
 Baltazar Oviedo
 Claudia Palacios
 Benito Perkulis
 Carmen Rodríguez
 Juan Romanca
 Erik Iván Salinas
 Alondra Torres
 Ricardo Vera
 Vivi
 Yaldha Victoria
 Daniela Yudelevich
 Carlos Speitzer

Equipo de producción
 Una historia original de: Mario L. Mortheo
 Adaptación: Alejandro Orive, Carlos Daniel González
 Editora literaria: Arlene López
 Tema musical: Una luz en el camino
 Tema y música original: Rubén Zepeda
 Intérpretes: Mariana Botas y elenco infantil
 Escenografía: Arturo Flores
 Ambientación: Claudia Hale
 Diseño de vestuario: Maribel González
 Diseño de imagen: Televisa San Ángel
 Musicalizador: Luis Alberto Diazayas
 Editor: Óscar Morales
 Dirección adjunta: Lily Garza
 Dirección de cámaras: Manuel Ángel Barajas, Héctor Márquez
 Coordinador de producción: Antonio Reyes
 Dirección de escena: Benjamín Cann, Alfredo Gurrola
 Productor asociado: Marco Vinicio López de Zatarain
 Productora: Martha Patricia López de Zatarain

Versiones
Una luz en el camino es una adaptación de El árbol azul, telenovela argentina producida por El Trece en 1991, protagonizada por Belén Blanco, Andrés Vicente y Morena Druchas. En su última parte, Una luz en el camino está basada en una historia original basada en la vida del tío de la productora MaPat López de Zatarain, creador del primer campamento en México.

Premios y nominaciones

Premios Bravo 1999

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Página de alma-latina.net
 Página de Univisión

Telenovelas de México
Telenovelas de 1998
Telenovelas infantiles de México
Telenovelas de Televisa
Adaptaciones de telenovelas argentinas


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In Bantwal Town Municipal Council, 12 seats were bagged by the Congress, 11 by BJP and SDPI bagged 4 seats out of 27 wards. Out of 27 seats in Aland, counting concluded that BJP has won 13 seats, Congress-13 and JD(S)-1. The results were declared on 21 seats out of total 23 seats in Jewargi as follows: 16 won by BJP, 3 by INC, 2 by JDS, and equal votes obtained by two ward candidates.
Nipani Municipality, the hometown of BJP MLA Shashikala Jolle had all 31 wards won by independent candidates. The results which were announced later on stated that there is no clear majority to any party, with Congress-12, BJP-13 and Independent-06.
In Holenarasipur JDS wins 23 out of 23 seats.
JDS is open for post-poll alliance with all the non BJP parties. JDS emerges as the single largest party by winning 17 seats. BJP in the second position with 13 seats.
Results declared on 2,267 out of total 2,664 seats in 102 urban local bodies where the polls took place on August 31. Congress wins 846, BJP wins 788, JD'S wins 307, and independent candidates win 277 seats.
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Five awesome music apps for the iPad
Thorin Klosowski April 2, 2010 7:04AM
We're all pretty well aware that the iPad launches tomorrow, and while your standing in line at the Cherry Creek Mall waiting for yours, we'll be busy banging drum sticks on a stone tablet wishing we were you.
Just because we're not getting one, however, hasn't stopped us from drooling at a few of the music related apps that will be debuting with the miniature computer/giant iPod Touch's launch.
We've looked through video after video to find some of the most interesting early uses of the system (and not just upscaled iPhone apps), so you'll be able to quickly find them and get to making the first ever iPad created, recorded and mastered album. Here are five (okay, a few more sneak in there) that look exceptionally cool.
5. Pianist Pro You know what sounds more pretty than a piano? Nothing. So Pianist Pro already has that going for it. The iPad also solves the biggest problem with iPhone/Touch music apps by having a significantly larger sized screen. Playing a piano is almost possible on the iPad, and, more importantly, utilizing different features and touching things on the screen won't be as cumbersome. If a piano isn't pretty enough for you, then we expect the Airharp or the accordion simulator to do the trick, or how about the miniSynth Pro or the regular Synth?
4. Rj Voyager If you haven't played with RJDJ's reactive music software before, picture something like a cross between Brian Eno and Negativland. It's makes music that reacts to environmental sounds -- and while not really in the spectrum of "creating" music, it's cool, nonetheless. Also of interest is Magic Piano, Matrix Music Pad and Tangible Groove Pad.
3. ForscoreWhile we can't read sheet music ourselves, we imagine music teachers, students and composers wouldn't mind having this little doodad at their disposal. While it can't really justify the purchase by itself, it's pretty dang neat. The thing can read sheet music and comic books? Shit, we're sold!
2. AC-7 Pro Control Surface Wireless control surface? We don't know what that means! But we do know it looks nifty, and if nothing else, it continues to display the potential of the iPad's knack for music making and editing. Of course, what we'd really like to see is a version of Apple's Logic Studio. Now that would be keen. Luckily, though, others are already in the game, including the rad TouchOSC, Four Track and Cue.Play.DJ.
1. iElectribe We are not joking around when we say this: This could be the killer app for music makers. Having paid $500 for the real world version of this sequencer and absolutely loving it before it exploded, this is, without a doubt, the one thing we really wanted to see. It's not just about the Electribe specifically -- it's the fact Korg is jumping on and supporting this device. Korg's shown great prowess in supporting digital music of all kinds, and we're really crossing our fingers this isn't the end of their experiment with the iPad. If you hate Korg for some reason, worry not; there are plenty of other options including Sonorasaurus Rex, Bleep!Box, dPad and likely hundreds more.
Anyone want to loan us an iPad for, uh, review purposes? How about you? Picking yours up tomorrow? Do you think you'll try making some music on it instead of using it to consume media?
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Inside the most viewed homes for sale overseas: The top five aspirational properties around the world with price tags in the tens of millions to match
We take a look inside the most viewed homes for sale overseas on property website Rightmove
Four out of five of the most popular homes overseas are in the USA, with the remainder in Spain
All of the asking prices are in the multi-million pound bracket, with the most expensive being £36million
By Myra Butterworth For MailOnline
Published: 19:01 EST, 16 February 2021 | Updated: 10:55 EST, 17 February 2021
The most popular homes for sale overseas that Britons have browsing have been revealed, and they all boast multi-million pound price tags.
The mega-expensive homes can be found on the overseas section of Britain's biggest property website Rightmove, and surprisingly considering Britons' love of European holiday homes, four out of the five are in the USA.
The exception is a property on the Spanish island of Mallorca, although the chic modern property could easily be something from the Californian hills or straight out of Netflix's Selling Sunset.
Dream overseas properties: The most viewed homes for sale overseas have been revealed by property website Rightmove, including this Florida home (pictured also below)
The prices of the properties range from the most expensive at £36million to the cheapest at just shy of £4million.
Rightmove's Tim Bannister said: 'Travelling abroad has been restricted for quite some time now, but these measures haven't stopped the British public from scrolling online to discover their favourite European villas and American mansions.
'There remains a huge appetite to view stunning overseas homes and this round-up includes a bulletproof New York fortress and a wonderful home on the south west coast of Mallorca.'
We take a look inside each of the properties and what they have to offer affluent homebuyers - or those without deep pockets who are just dreaming of living in a luxury home.
The five most viewed homes for sale overseas...
1. Six-bed mansion, Florida, $22.9million or £16.5million
The most popular overseas home for sale is a waterside home in Florida's Miami, which is being sold for £16,449,527 via estate agents Savills
The luxury property in Miami boasts an outdoor swimming pool, and has a private dock that can accommodate a 100ft yacht
Peace and quiet: The waterfront property has six bedrooms, with views across of Biscayne bay and Smugglers Cove
The most popular overseas home for sale is a waterside home in Florida, with an eight-figure price tag.
The Miami mansion in South Mashta Drive has six-bedrooms and a price of $22,900,000, or £16,449,527, with estate agents Savills handling the sale.
It boasts views of Biscayne bay and Smugglers Cove, and has a private dock that can accommodate a 100ft yacht.
The property also has a koi fish pond, a waterfront summer kitchen, a cinema room, and an outdoor swimming pool.
2. Six-bed townhouse, New York, $50million or £36million
Urban living: This modern New York townhouse is for sale for $50,000, or £36,004,000 and is being sold via estate agents Sphere
The house has a curved glass façade, which is bulletproof - offering a high level of security and protection for its new owners
The townhouse also has a private roof terrace with 360-degree views across the stunning New York skyline
The second most viewed homes for sale overseas is a New York townhouse with more bathrooms than bedrooms - a sure sign that you will need deep pockets to buy it.
Indeed, with its eight bathrooms and six bedrooms, the property is the most expensive in this list of most viewed homes for sale overseas. It has an asking price of $50,000,000, or £36,004,000, and is being sold via estate agents Sphere.
Perhaps the East 64th Street property's most impressive feature is the curved glass façade, which is bulletproof - offering a high level of protection for its owners.
The townhouse also has a private roof terrace with 360-degree views across the city's skyline.
3. Nine-bed house, Camp de Mar, Mallorca, €15million or £13million ($18.2million)
This £13million property on the south west side of Mallorca is being sold by estate agents Kensington International
Selling Sunset? There is an outdoor swimming pool area and direct access to the sea at the property in Camp de Mar
Inside, there are massive floor-to-ceiling doors and windows that mean the chic property is flooded with light
This £13million house on the south west side of Mallorca is a modern design, reminiscent of a home you'd expect to see on a Californian hill, or featured on an episode of Netflix's Selling Sunset.
Almost every room of the nine-bedroom villa in Andratx has an amazing view of the sea, and the massive floor-to-ceiling windows mean it is flooded with light.
It has not one but two swimming pools, and is being sold for €15million, or £13,103,850, the equivalent of $18.2million, via estate agents Kensington International.
4. Six-bed ranch, California, $39,995,000 or £28.8million
For horse fans: This Californian equestrian ranch includes a six-bedroom house and extends across more than 4,600 acres
The property is being sold via estate agents American Farm & Ranch and is on the market for $39,995,000 or £28,799,599
Stunning riding facilities: The name of the property is Rancho Latigo and it includes a beautiful 11-stall barn
This Californian equestrian ranch includes a six-bedroom house and extends across more than 4,600 acres.
It is called Rancho Latigo and is being sold for £28,799,599 via estate agents American Farm & Ranch.
The stunning property in Santa Ynez also boasts a helipad, making it easily accessible to Los Angeles.
5. Five-bed townhouse, New York, $5.5million or £3.96million
Cheapest on the list: This Manhattan property is being sold via estate agents Savills and has a price tag of $5.5million or £3,960,440
The property is currently arranged as three separate flats, but it could possibly be turned into a single family home
Some of the areas of the property require updating, but this double bedroom has a deep paint colour and is ready to move into
The final property on the list of most viewed homes overseas is the least expensive, although still aspirational for most due to the £3,960,440 price tag.
The Manhattan property is being sold via estate agents Savills and is currently arranged as three separate flats, some areas of which require updating.
The property is in a tree-lined road called Bedford Street and could be converted into a single family home.
Inside the most viewed homes for sale overseas on Rightmove
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Samuel Sachs (; July 28, 1851 – March 2, 1935) was an American investment banker.

Early life
Samuel Sachs was born on July 28, 1851, in Maryland, the son of Sophie (née Baer) and Joseph Sachs, both Jewish immigrants from Bavaria, Germany. He had one older sibling, Julius Sachs, and three younger siblings, Emily Sachs, Henry Sachs, and Bernard Sachs.

Career
Sachs, along with his longtime friend Philip Lehman of Lehman Brothers, pioneered the issuing of stock as a way for new companies to raise funds.

Sachs then joined his father-in-law Marcus Goldman's firm which prompted the name change to Goldman Sachs in 1904. Together they underwrote securities offerings for such large firms as Sears, Roebuck and Company. During this time Goldman Sachs also diversified to become involved in other major securities markets, like the over-the-counter, bond, and convertibles markets which are still a big part of the company's revenue today. Sachs retired in 1928.

Philanthropy
Sachs donated US$50,000 (equivalent to $ in ) to Harvard University in 1924.

Personal life and death
Sachs married Louisa Goldman, the youngest daughter of Marcus Goldman, also Bavarian Jewish immigrants. They resided at The Pierre. They had four children: Paul Joseph Sachs, Arthur Sachs, Walter Edward Sachs, and Ella S. Sachs.

Sachs died on March 2, 1935, in New York City.

See also
Goldman–Sachs family

References

1851 births
1935 deaths
American investment bankers
American people of German-Jewish descent
Businesspeople from Maryland
Businesspeople from New York City
Chairmen of Goldman Sachs
Chief Executive Officers of Goldman Sachs
Jewish American bankers


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Punches thrown as Georgia Stomps rivals Georgia Tech
Posted by Greg Hollis December 1, 2019 mode_comment0
The 'Clean, Old Fashion Hate' rivalry between the Georgia Bulldogs and Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets was restored for the 114th edition today in Atlanta at Bobby Dodd Stadium. The Bulldogs flexed their muscles in the third quarter to cruise to a 52-7 victory over the Yellow Jackets.
Late in the third quarter, the term 'Clean Old-Fashioned Hate' lived up to its name. Bulldogs' wide receiver George Pickens and Yellow Jackets' defensive back Tre Swilling got in a heated shoving match with Pickens throwing a punch and getting ejected.
Pickens had been previously benched in the first half of Saturday's rivalry matchup against Tech. He will be probably be suspended the first half or maybe more of the SEC title game on Dec. 6.
Despite the actual fight being the only fight, the Yellow Jackets showed in the second half; they did put up one in the first half in between the whistles.
The Yellow Jackets defense created a lot of opportunities in the first half for their offense. They recovered two forced fumbles, but the offense failed to produce points on both drives. The Yellow Jackets' rolled the dice in the second quarter after their only touchdown drive and called an onside kick. It paid off because they recovered it but failed to get any points out of the drive.
The Bulldogs had their fair share of missed opportunities and mistakes as well in the first half. They had two lost fumbles and missed a field goal right before the half. In the third quarter, though, the Bulldogs came out of the half to score on its first drive and didn't look back.
Georgia's quarterback Jake Fromm threw for 149 yards and three touchdowns alone in the third quarter. Unfortunately, it wasn't all good in the third quarter. They lost junior running back D'Andre Swift to a shoulder injury. Yellow Jackets' linebacker David Curry delivered the big hit on Bulldogs' running back Swift to force the fumble and forced Swift to be sidelined with a shoulder injury for the remainder of the game.
Swift status is unknown and will be closely evaluated throughout the week. These will be two huge losses for the Bulldogs if Swift can't play, and Pickens is suspended for the whole game.
Georgia Tech finishes the season 3-9 and moves on to the offseason to get ready for year two of head coach Geoff Collins era. Georgia finishes 11-1 for the third straight year and looks forward to the SEC title game on Dec. 6 against Louisiana State University. If the Bulldogs can secure a victory, they will also get a College Football Playoff berth.
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