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Some of the most memorable and effective mid-managers and senior executives utilize leadership charisma to bolster their personal brands, build alliances, gain buy-in from team members and maximize their influence internally and externally to their organizations. But some of the most charismatic leaders have used these skills to wreak havoc. Think of Charles Manson, Adolf Hitler and David Koresh, to name a few. Today, many leadership pundits promote a style of "servant leadership" and empathy that better serves leaders in a modern world. In "Good to Great," author James Collins calls it Level 5 Leadership. But all too often the "command-and-control" management style still dominates in many workplaces.
This more transactional and authoritative approach is both outdated and counterproductive in today's organizational environments. Aspiring leaders are encouraged to reject such management styles that undermine collaboration, flexibility, inspiration and humility. Rather, we encourage others to seize the myriad benefits linked to genuine leadership charisma. Learning, practicing and embodying three specific attitudes or behavioural principles will help to get you there because they provide a tactical definition of what leadership charisma means in practice. They seem simple in principle but can be difficult to exhibit consistently without some conscious effort.
Attitude 1: Be engaged with those in front of you. The term "engagement" has somewhat staled, but here it means showing genuine interest in the success of the organization and individual team members. To clarify, interested and engaged people do not multitask, fidget with their smartphones or otherwise dilute their attention and participation during interactions and meetings. Instead, engaged leaders actively listen, proactively comment on others' contributions and offer constructive feedback or insights to others' questions.
Attitude 2: Be solution-focused with those relying on you. Naysaying is easy to do—but undoing its often ugly and lingering effects is not. Using language and framing your contributions and feedback in constructive and supportive terms typically has a "charismatic effect" on others. People like, respect and gravitate toward those who help to build momentum for success versus slowing it down.
Attitude 3: Be relatable with those around you. People want to be heard and understood, but active listening itself is not always enough. Leaders must communicate and interact in ways that best match the target audience. Showing humility, spontaneity and openness equates to being relatable. And constituents bestow credibility and trust to those with whom they can relate.
Leadership charisma does not mean being "larger than life," a "dynamic speaker," or having a strong "executive presence." Rather, leaders fundamentally stand out in their ability to focus on others and not on themselves. This "service to others" is at the core of genuine charisma—it is inspirational in its message and its ability to bring people together to realize a common goal and share in that success. Charisma coupled with substance and empathy is a very powerful tool.
This article was originally published in Hotel Management.


Употребление Present Participle Active и Past Participle Passive в функции определения.
Present Participle Active в функции определения употребляется тогда, когда существительное, к которому оно относится, совершает действие или отвечает за него или вызывает определенное состояние.
Present Participle Active в функции определения можно заменить придаточным определеительным предложением с глаголом в форме Continuous.
The crying baby awoke the nurse. = The baby who was crying awoke the nurse.
The child saw a frightening film. = The child saw the film which was frightening him.
Past Participle Passive в функции определения употребляется тогда, когда существительное, к которому оно относится, испытывает действие или состояние.
Past Participle Passive в функции определения можно заменить придаточным определительным предложением с глаголом в форме Passive.
The sorted mail was delivered to the offices before noon. = The mail which had been sorted was delivered to the offices before noon.
The frightened child began to cry. = The child who had been frightened began to cry.
Упражнение 25. Употребите Present Participle Active или Past Participle Passive в функции определения в следующих предложениях. Переведите предложения на русский язык.
The (breaking/broken) dishes lay on the floor.
The (trembling/trembled) children were given a blanket for warmth.
Compassionate friends tried to console the (crying/cried) victims of the accident.
When James noticed the (burning/burnt) building, he notified the fire department immediately.
The (exciting/excited) passengers jumped into the lifeboats when notified that the ship was sinking.
The (smiling/smiled) Mona Lisa is on display in the Louvre in Paris.
The wind made such (frightening/frightened) noises that the children ran to their parent's room.
The (frightening/frightened) hostages only wanted to be left alone.
The (boring/bored) lecture got the students to sleep.
The (boring/bored) students went to sleep during the (boring/bored) lecture.
The police towed away the (parking/parked) cars because they were blocking the entrance.
(Freezing/frozen) food is often easier to prepare than fresh food.
The (cleaning/cleaned) shoes were placed in the sun to dry.
We found it difficult to get through the (closing/closed) door without a key.
As we entered the (crowding/crowded) room, I noticed my cousins.


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Wow, this looks like an amazing place! I've never heard of it before - as you know, I need some major exploring time in the NW!
What gorgeous photos - thanks for sharing them so I could visit vicariously.
I had a great time exploring Amazon's Spheres, and I'm glad you enjoyed my photos. You're right--it was an amazing place. Thanks for leaving a comment on today's post.
What a gorgeous walk that would be! Thanks for sharing and tempting me to visit the NW.
There is a lot to see in Seattle and surrounding areas, and I've barely scratched the surface. I'm glad you enjoyed my photos. Thank you for visiting and leaving a comment.
Another set of wonderful photos, Sandy! You have a knack for seeing with your camera that opens my eyes to beauty. I wonder if that unidentified plant is a kind of dieffenbachia. I Googled images for a match. Saw some that look similar.
What a wonderful and lovely place. Very beautiful. Thanks for sharing them. I would love to go there.
Judy: Thank you for the nice compliment! For all I know, that plant could be a dieffenbachia, although it doesn't look like any I've ever seen. The "fruit" growing out of the limbs was definitely unusual.
csuhpar1: Thanks for visiting my blog and leaving a comment. The Amazon Spheres were definitely worth a visit.
I said it last week and will again, I want to go here!


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Cruz tops Trump in Iowa; Clinton, Sanders in tight Dem race
DES MOINES, Iowa — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, a fiery conservative loathed by his own party's leaders, swept to victory in Iowa's Republican caucuses Monday, overcoming billionaire Donald Trump and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. Among Democrats, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders were deadlocked in a tight race.
Cruz's victory over Trump was a testament to his massive get-out-the-vote operation in Iowa and the months he spent wooing the state's influential conservative and evangelical leaders.
"Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee and next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media, will not be chosen by the Washington establishment," Cruz said.
Trump, the supremely confident real estate mogul, sounded humble in defeat, saying he was "honored" by the support of Iowans. And he vowed to keep up his fight for the Republican nomination.
"We will go on to easily beat Hillary or Bernie or whoever the hell they throw up," Trump told cheering supporters.
Clinton took the stage at her own campaign rally saying she was "breathing a big sigh of relief" but with the Democratic race too close to call. Well aware that even a slim victory over Sanders would reinvigorate questions about her candidacy, she foresaw a long race to come.
"It is rare that we have the opportunity we do now, to have a real contest of ideas, to really think hard about what the Democratic Party stands for and what we want the future of our country to look like," Clinton said.
For her supporters, the exceedingly tight race with Sanders was sure to bring back painful memories of her loss to Barack Obama in 2008. Her campaign spent nearly a year building a massive get-out-the-vote operation in Iowa yet still seemed to be caught off guard by the enthusiasm surrounding Sanders.
A self-declared democratic socialist from Vermont, Sanders drew large, youthful crowds across the state with his calls for breaking up big Wall Street banks and his fierce opposition to a campaign finance system that he says is rigged for the wealthy.
Cruz modeled his campaign after past Iowa Republican winners, visiting all of the state's 99 counties and courting influential evangelical and conservative leaders. While candidates with that portfolio have often faded later in the primary contest, Cruz's campaign says it has the financial resources to maintain viable for months.
Trump and Rubio were battling for second place, ensuring a stronger-than-expected finish for the Florida senator regardless of his exact standing in the vote tally. Rubio is a favorite of more mainstream Republicans and hoped to use the Iowa results to urge the party establishment to coalesce around his candidacy.
"We have taken the first step, but an important step, to winning the nomination," Rubio said at a campaign rally in Des Moines. He congratulated Cruz, saying he'd "earned his victory."
Iowa has decidedly mixed results in picking eventual nominees. The past two Republican caucus winners — former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum — faded as the race stretched on. But Obama's unexpected 2008 victory was instrumental in his path to the Democratic nomination.
Candidates this year faced an electorate deeply frustrated with Washington. While the economy has improved under President Obama, the recovery has eluded many Americans. New terror threats at home and abroad have increased national security concerns.
Voters at Republican caucuses indicated they were deeply unhappy with the way the federal government is working. Half said they were dissatisfied and 4 in 10 said they were angry, according to surveys conducted by Edison Research for The Associated Press and the television networks.
Six in 10 Democratic caucus-goers wanted a candidate who would continue Obama's policies. Young voters overwhelmingly backed Sanders.
Both parties were drawing new voters. About 4 in 10 participants in each party said they were caucusing for the first time.
In Iowa, which has for decades launched the presidential nominating contest, candidates also faced an electorate that's whiter, more rural and more evangelical than many states. But, given its prime leadoff spot in the primary season, the state gets extra attention from presidential campaigns.
The caucuses marked the end of at least two candidates' White House hopes. Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley ended his longshot bid for the Democratic nomination. Huckabee dropped out on the Republican side.
Republicans John Kasich, Chris Christie and Jeb Bush were all spending Monday night in New Hampshire — not only to get a jump on the snow moving into Iowa but also to get ahead of their competitors in a state with voters who are expected to be friendlier to more traditional GOP candidates.
While both parties caucused on the same night in Iowa, they did so with different rules.
Republicans vote by private ballot. The state's 30 Republican delegates are awarded proportionally based on the vote.
Democrats form groups at caucus sites, publicly declaring their support for a candidate. If the number in any group is less than 15 percent of the total, they can either bow out or join another viable candidate's group.
Those final numbers are awarded proportionately, based on statewide and congressional district voting, determining Iowa's 44 delegates to the national convention.

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I have a new mini tutorial for you today! I sat down yesterday and decided to play with the newly released Tim Holtz Sizzix Faceted Heart. It's one of his new dies that when folded and adhered together creates a 3D jeweled type heart with a flat back that can be adhered to any number of projects.
I chose to make two of them and adhere them together to create a steampunk type locket. The inspiration came from all the lovely projects that so many talented designers shared at Creativation last weekend, and prior to that, created for the Sizzix Chapter 1 Sneak Peek. The examples were amazing and I had to give the Feceted Heart a go.
Here is a look at the FABULOUS samples from the Facebook Live.
You can check out more of the details of the Chapter 1 Release by clicking HERE.
The die comes with 2 different sizes of hearts…for this tutorial I used the smaller size.
I started out by cutting 2 of the small hearts from a piece of copper metallic paper from the Paper Stash Metallic 2 Kraft pad. Then I folded the scored areas of the heart. I used my nails to give the scores a more crisp fold, but you could also use a bone folder. Then I adhered it together with Distress Collage Medium.
My first attempt at the top folds of the heart were not very sharp, so as I glued the heart together I pinched the top fronts to get them more defined.
Here is a photo of the first attempt. This is the same heart as above.
..so the heart can have either shape, but for the locket I really wanted it defined.
After the hearts were folded and adhered together, I began rubbing the edges with my Gathered Twigs Distress Crayon and added one of the new Hardware Heads to the the front to create a "Keyhole". This was dabbed with a bit of picket fence and rubbed with a bit of Mushroom AI, then after it was glued on, I ran my crayon over top of it.
To create the "locket" top , I used an Idea-ology Wire Pins.
I sandwiched the pin in-between the two hearts and used Collage Medium to adhere the two hearts and pin together.
I distressed a Small Adornment Key with Picket Fence and Broken China Distress Paint, and some Mushroom Alcohol Ink. Then I attached it with a piece of vintage old chain.
With that, my locket was complete! I'm not sure quite yet what project this is going on, but as soon as I create it, I'll share it with you.
Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful evening!
I love it! Its perfect. I keep forgetting about my wax crayons. I have been trying with embossing powders this last hour to make my heart look as if it was welded along the edges it didn't come out as I hoped and now I have seen yours I am so in awe of your talent.
Yes, the crayons are wonderful to use for distressing!!! I use mine all the time for it! ♥ thank you, Sarah!
Cool! I love both your 1st attempt and the second, and WOW!!! What a difference the Crayon makes. It took me a while to start using mine, but now I love them. Emma said she would post the Flower Pot project some time in the upcoming weeks. I thought it looked like one of yours! Can't wait to see what you put this little GEM on!
Looks so real Stacy. Will have to save for the crayons, but will gelato work also?
Because of this tutorial I have.ordered this die. Thank you! I can't wait to see the finished project, so far it's amazing.
Aww, thank you so much, Ann! I'm so glad you like it…I wasn't really sure about it at first either, then I got to thinking on if I could make it into a locket and I had to try it! I'm so happy it turned out 😊 thank you for your friendship and kindness! ♥ hugs my friend!
Fabulous tutorial and an even more incredible result. I love the addition of the 'keyhole' and may just have to borrow that idea. I can't believe you made this with the smaller of the hearts! Amazing detail! As always, you have blown me away with your creativity! Sending hugs!
Hi Kriss! Thanks so much, it's actually one of the new idea-ology Hardware Heads, they come with several styles and sizes. They were just released so should be hitting the stores soon. They are flat backed so all you have to do is glue them on, not like a brad where you have to punch a hole. 🙂 Hope that helps you find them. Thanks for stopping by!
Thought I already commented on this. Let me e it so… The lock trick is fabulous!!!!


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Where Can I Learn More About Paraquat Lawsuits?
By Gerard Anderson
Paraquat has been used extensively in the United States as a supplement to RoundUp and other pesticide and herbicide applications. Farmlands see around 10 million pounds of paraquat applied annually, and yet, the use of this chemical agent is cause for concern among farmers, herbicide applicators, delivery workers, and people living in these communities more broadly.
Paraquat use has been linked directly to the development of Parkinson's disease, and even a tiny dosage of the weed killer can be lethal in humans. As a result, paraquat lawsuits are widespread in the United States, where the use of the herbicide remains legal. Parkinson's disease has long been thought to be caused by a genetic predisposition among the population, but the truth is that Parkinson's disease is attributed in this manner in only around 10 percent of all Parkinson's disease cases. Pesticide use and many other factors can contribute to the development of Parkinson's disease in patients of all ages.
Paraquat use has spurred a number of lawsuits.
If you've been affected by the use of paraquat, understanding your options is an important step to take in order to gain the justice you deserve. Paraquat has been banned in a number of countries around the world, including Brazil, China, and every European Union member state. This is because of the links between paraquat exposure and the development of Parkinson's. Indeed, paraquat maintains such a strong link with this disease that scientists utilize paraquat as an active ingredient to induce Parkinson's in lab rats and other animal test subjects in order to study it.
Paraquat isn't the same thing as RoundUp.
Paraquat usage in the United States is certainly widespread, and without proper care, it can prove fatal. What makes this so dangerous is its common use alongside RoundUp and other commercially available weed killers. When untrained farm hands work with these chemical agents, they don't always know the risks they are undertaking because of the overlap between herbicides that aren't lethal, and the paraquat ingredient that is.
Finding information about paraquat lawsuit cases is straightforward.
If you've been exposed to paraquat as a member of a farm team or member of a community in which paraquat is used alongside RoundUp and other herbicide solutions, finding information about lawsuits pertaining to this topic is crucial for your long-term health and well-being. An attorney who is dealing with paraquat-related cases, like TorHoerman Law, is a critical ally in your search for justice and compensation to offset any recurring medical bills you may see in the future. The Parkinson's diagnosis that paraquat exposure can bring about in anyone's life is impactful enough, but the side effects and potential death that immediate exposure brings about in patients is cause for alarm.
Speaking with a legal professional about your rights and the compensation that you are entitled to as a victim of the use of paraquat in your area is a must for anyone in these communities. Today, paraquat has been banned by the EPA in residential areas, however, its use is still widespread in agricultural communities and rural areas. Many agribusinesses and individual farmers still rely on the paraquat additive in order to supplement RoundUp and other agents as a result of the continued demands of weed management and the natural constraints of the growing season itself.
If you've been exposed to this chemical agent or think that new symptoms that you've developed in the last few months or years have come as a result of paraquat use in your local area, speaking with a legal professional is a logical next step. Consider working with an attorney with a proven track record in this space for the best possible result in your paraquat case.


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Home » IANS » WH decries calls to remove Gandhi statues
WH decries calls to remove Gandhi statues
Published on : Tue 07th July 2020, 09:33 AM
By Arul Louis
New York, July 7 (IANS) Mahatma Gandhi has been caught up in the anti-racism movement's campaign for removing statues and memorials and the White House has decried the targeting of the Father of India.
US President Donald Trump's Spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany said on Monday, "What we're seeing across the nation is this vast cancel culture where we're going to tear down our monuments, we're going to tear down Gandhi…"
"Radical left-wing mobs seek to tear down our monuments and our memorials – everyone from George Washington to Abraham Lincoln to Frederick Douglass, and even Gandhi," she said.
What began as an outgrowth of the national protests against police brutality targeting symbols of the Confederate states that unsuccessfully seceded from the US in the 19th century to preserve slavery, has now spawned a Talibanesque statue destruction force defacing memorials to the Father of the Nation George Washington and Mahatma Gandhi and mindlessly destroying statues of even those who campaigned against slavery and racism.
With the makings of a culture war pitting the left and the progressives against the mainstream, Trump has plunged into the controversy opposing the taking down of monuments to even the leaders of the slavery-upholding Confederacy.
Last month he issued executive orders to prosecute those destroying monuments and to restore those destroyed.
Lagging in the polls to former Vice President Joe Biden, who is to be the Democratic Party candidate in the November election, Trump is counting on the excesses of the anti-racism movement turning off centrists.
In speeches commemorating the Independence Day last week his attacks centered on those wanting some statues and memorials removed.
Against the backdrop of the gigantic busts of Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson and Teddy Roosevelt on Mount Rushmore, Trump said on Friday, "Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values and indoctrinate our children."
The Democratic leadership has been ambivalent on the issue for fearing the vocal leftist base.
During a CNN programme, Senator Tammy Duckworth, considered a front-runner to be Biden's vice-presidential candidate, would not take a stand on demands for removing Washington's statues, saying, "We should listen to the argument there (for removal)."
While Gandhi statues in Washington and in the California city of Davis were vandalised with personal insults against Gandhi last month during theAprotests against police brutality, there is a campaign to remove his statues.
Riding on the coat-tails of the anti-racism protests sweeping the country, a petition backed by the Sikh youth organisation, Jakara Movement, with 5,000 signatures demanded the removal of Gandhi's statue in the Peace Garden at the Fresno State University in California, according to the Fresno Bee newspaper.
But the university's president Joseph Castro rejected the demand in a statement on the university's web site.
A section of Sikhs and others, including African Americans,Ahave had held a demonstration near the vandalised statue of Gandhi in Davies asking for it to be removed, according to the Davis Vanguard.
Dillan Horton, an African American running for City Council, was quoted by the publication as calling Gandhi "an anti-black segregationist."
The Indian Association of Sacramento has, meanwhile, launched a petition on Change.org asking Davis to retain the statue and also protect it from vandals.
The petition signed by 3,428 people as of Monday night pointed out that Martin Luther King, the African American icon of the US civil rights movement had said that the Gandhian philosophy was "the only morally and practically sound method open to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom" and South Africa's anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela had acknowledged being inspired by his non-violent method to fight his coutry's racist regime.
The anti-racism movement behind the campaign against some memorials came out of the protests against the extra-judicial killing of an unarmed African American man by police in Minneapolis.
A memorial to Washington, who led the War of Independence against Britain, which then upheld slavery and slave trade, was defaced in New York and Philadelphia, and demands have been made to remove his statues.
Statues of the nation's founding fathers Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, and Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the American Revolutionary War against Britain were also vandalised in Philadelphia.
An explanation for the targeting of the nation's founders is that they had owned slaves, although Franklin had later campaigned against slavery.
A statue of Christopher Columbus, the Italian who led Europeans to the Americas in the modern era, was destroyed in Baltimore.
The mindless rage has taken down even the statues of Matthias Baldwin, a White campaigner against slavery, Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave himself who fought slavery, and Ulysses Grant, a former president who as a general during the Civil War put down the secessionist slave-owning states.
There are also calls to remove a statue of Abraham Lincoln, who enforced the abolition of slavery and fought the secessionist slave states of the South, because it showed a freed slave kneeling by him in gratitude.
The move against Confederate symbols has succeeded in some places.
State and local governments across the American South have removed statues of Jefferson Davis, the president of the breakaway Confederate states, and several leaders and soldiers of the slavery supporting secessionists and the legislature and Governor Tate Reeves of Mississippi approved the removal of the state flag that had the inset of the Confederate banner.
(Arul Louis can be reached at [email protected] and followed on Twitter at @arulouis)
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The Standard will open its highly anticipated Asia flagship, The Standard, Bangkok Mahanakhon along with two seaside retreats, The Standard, Hua Hin and The Standard, Ibiza
Amar Lalvani, CEO of Standard International (parent company of The Standard Hotels), presents the case for optimism in the hospitality business amidst the ongoing challenges resulting from Covid-19, along with his company's navigation of the crisis and continued growth.
The latest additions to the company's growing portfolio, The Standard, Hua Hin, The Standard's first resort in Thailand, will open on December 1st, 2021, followed by The Standard, Bangkok Mahanakhon, the brand's highly anticipated Asia flagship, which will open in 2022. The Standard is also excited to announce The Standard, Ibiza also slated to open in 2022. These three new properties will kick off a series of 10 additional landmark projects in highly coveted markets around the world, including: Singapore, Melbourne, Lisbon, Dublin, Brussels and Las Vegas.
"We are incredibly proud to announce the openings of The Standard, Hua Hin, which is set for December, our incredible Asia flagship, The Standard, Bangkok Mahanakhon, which will open next year, as well as our second property in Europe, The Standard, Ibiza" said Standard International CEO, Amar Lalvani. "This has been a time of unprecedented crisis for the hospitality industry, and the millions of people around the world who work in the sector. Amidst such challenges, we are incredibly grateful that we continue to be able to delight our guests, serve our communities and create new opportunities for our team members by building landmark hotels around the world."
Widely recognized as one of the most innovative lifestyle hospitality brands in the industry, The Standard has always set its goal of every project to defy convention, up the aesthetic stakes, and deliver an absolutely one-of-a-kind experience that can only be had at each of its properties.
The Standard, Hua Hin, The Standard's first hotel in Thailand, will open on December 1, 2021. With 178 guest rooms and 21 pool villas with beachfront access, The Standard, Hua Hin will be a timeless destination for the Thai creative set and The Standard's global network of loyal clientele. A beloved getaway dating back to 1911, Hua Hin emerged as a destination when the construction of the railroad that connects Bangkok with the South first arrived at the pristine little beach town. By the mid-1920s, it became the chosen holiday retreat for the nobility. With time, the sleepy fishing village has transformed into a popular seaside destination without losing its old-world charm. Today, Hua Hin is a favorite weekend escape for residents of Bangkok who have been waiting for exactly what The Standard promises to offer: a stylish and vibrant beachfront resort. One that respects Hua Hin's understated Thai elegance and appreciation of the history and local setting and combines it with a global sensibility and a bit of fun.
The Standard, Bangkok Mahankhon will be the Asia flagship for the Standard brand. Opening in 2022, the hotel is already a landmark, housed in the King Power Mahanakhon Building, a 78-story mixed use building that is one of the tallest in Thailand. Centrally located in the CBD between Sathorn and Silom, the hotel will reflect the dynamic energy of the Thai capital. With 155 rooms, penthouse, a terrace pool, fitness center, meeting rooms and a dynamic variety of food, drink and nightlife venues, from The Parlor to the Tea Room and renowned Standard Grill, as well as Thailand's first outpost of the acclaimed Mott 32 restaurant. The property is designed by Spanish artist-designer Jaime Hayon's Hayon Studio, in collaboration with The Standard's award-winning in-house design team, this breath-taking new addition to the Standard portfolio will sit proudly alongside the brand's award-winning vibrant US and European urban flagships, The Standard, High Line, and Standard, London and in perfect counterpoint to our waterside retreats The Standard, Maldives, The Standard, Miami, and the forthcoming The Standard, Hua Hin and The Standard, Ibiza.
Learn more about our upcoming expansion into Bangkok and Hua Hin, and plan your visit to The Standard, Hua Hin now, with a special opening offer. Stay tuned for a special offer for The Standard, Bangkok Mahanakhon via https://www.standardhotels.com/bangkok/properties/bangkok.


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George Edward Bateman Saintsbury, född den 23 oktober 1845 i Southampton, död den 28 januari 1933 i Bath, var en engelsk litteraturhistoriker.

Saintsbury studerade i Oxford och var flera år lärare i klassiska språk. År 1875 debuterade han som kritiker i Academy och var en framstående medarbetare i Saturday Review. Åren 1895–1915 var Saintsbury professor i retorik och engelsk litteratur vid universitetet i Edinburgh. Han gjorde sig först bemärkt genom en biografi över Dryden (1881, i serien: English Men of Letters), av vars arbeten han ombesörjde en ny upplaga (en revision av Walter Scotts). Särskilt uppseende väckte hans Short history of french literature (1882 och senare).

Vidare skrev han History of Elizabethan literature (1887), Essays in English literature 1780–1860 (2 band, 1890 och 1895), Essays on french novelists (1891), Miscellaneous essays (1892), Corrected impressions, essays on Victorian writers (1895), History of nineteenth century literature (1896), A short history of english literature (1898 och senare), en upplaga av Minor Caroline Poets of the Caroline period (2 band, 1905–1906).

Han redigerade serien Periods of european literature, i vilken han själv skrev The flourishing of romance and the rise of allegory (1897), The earlier renaissance (1901) och The later nineteenth century (1909). Hans mest betydande arbeten är A history of criticism (3 band, 1900-04), med supplement, Loci critici, passages illustrative of critical theory and practice (1903) och A history of english prosody from the 12:th century to the present day (3 band, 1906–1910).

Därtill kom Fielding (1909), Historical manual of english prosody (1910), A history of english prose rhythm (1912), The english novel (1913), A first book of english literature (1914), The peace of the augustans (1915), A history of the french novel (2 band, 1917–1919), Notes on a cellar book (1920), A letter-book (1922), A scrap book (samma år), A second scrap book (1923) och Collected essays and papers (3 band, samma år) samt skolböcker och skolupplagor av engelska och franska författare.

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Canebrake halls decked for Christmas
Published 11:57 am Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Demopolis Pilot Club member Cindy Rice works Tuesday to decorate Bluff Hall for Christmas in the Canebrake.
The Marengo County Historical Society is inviting people to celebrate Christmas in the Canebrake 2012, on Friday, Nov. 30, from 5:30-8 p.m. at Bluff Hall and Lyon Hall.
These historic antebellum houses will be decorated in period fashion with fresh cedar, pine, smilax, berries and cane among other native naturals.
Local organizations and businesses including the Pilot Club, The Reading Club, Colonial Book Club, United Methodist Women, The Study Club, Southside Garden Club and friends of the Society have volunteered their time and talent to decorate each room for the holidays.
Bluff Hall, Lyon Hall and Gaineswood will be decorated in period fashion.
In addition, area talent will fill the air with the sounds of Christmas.
Bluff Hall
5:30: Decatur Street Boys – voice – First United Methodist Church
6:00: Harmony – voice – Lauren Boone, Taylor Cooper, Cheyenne Martin, and Catherine McAlpine – First Baptist Church
6:30: Fairhaven Baptist Church Choir and Ensembles
7:30: Sarah Duncan Culpepper, Miley Lee, Sally Mackey – piano
Lyon Hall
5:30: First Baptist Church Handbell Choir
6:00: Wanda Dunklin and Angela Schumacher – flute and Beth Mason – violin
7:00: Dickens Carolers of Thomasville
7:30: Clement's Talent Coaching Vocal Group
Kirk Brooker of the Marengo County Historical Society said having these homes open brings "a sense of history and a sense of place" to Christmas in the Canebrake, and it "shares our heritage with locals and visitors alike."
He said that at Bluff Hall, there will be homemade sweets and apple cider for people to try, and at Lyon Hall, there will be a mix of "sweets and savories" for people to eat.
Brooker added that this is the 40th year for Bluff Hall to be open during Christmas on the River and Christmas in the Canebrake.
Admission is $5 per person ages 12 and up. Children under 12 will be admitted for free. For more information, please contact the Society at 334-289-9644.
Gaineswoood will also be open Friday evening and is inviting people to step back in time from 5-8 p.m.
At Gaineswood, enjoy award-winning musician John Bultman entertaining on the "open-back" banjo throughout the evening. Voice students from Clements Talent Coaching will sing Christmas carols too.
"Christmas in the Canebrake" continues at Gaineswood on Saturday, Dec. 1 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tour one of America's finest Greek Revival houses during its Christmas open house.
Gaineswood is a historic site of the Alabama Historical Commission. Located at 805 South Cedar Avenue, the house museum is a National Historic Landmark noted for its architecture and furnishings.
Admission is $5 per person ages 12 and up. Children under 12 will be admitted for free. For more information about Candlelight Evening, contact Gaineswood at 334-289-4846.
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Hipi launches #LearningWithHipi program to make learning fun and memorable
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 19 (ANI/PRNewswire): Hipi, India's leading short video app has always taken entertainment to the next level. Keeping with this trend, it launches its next trendsetting program #LearningWithHipi with a vision to educate while entertaining. With this initiative, Hipi aims to make learning a fun activity for the Indian youth and will be introducing several learning series going forward. Each such learning series will contain entertaining short video episodes that impart knowledge in a specific area or domain that will be immensely useful to the youth of today. The first series in this venture is to make English learning a source of fun for users. It seamlessly bridges the gap between entertainment and education by imparting aspects of the English language in an easy and enjoyable manner.
The series consists of binge-worthy episodes featuring a funny and street-smart superhero named Lucky Singh. He is a man on a mission to guard the queen's language, English. And he does this in his tongue-in-cheek style, sprinkled with oodles of humour.
The English knowledge imparted in the series is in line with the guidelines of the IELTS examination, a prerequisite test to be passed in order to migrate abroad. The episodes are designed in a way that the learner learns a different aspect of the English language in every entertaining episode. Concepts such as pronunciation, grammar, spellings and synonyms are some of the topics that are covered over the course of the series. It intends to lay a strong foundation in the English language that is essential for everyday conversations and more importantly to crack the tests required to study or migrate abroad.
"Unlike conventional learning materials, these videos make learning a fun and memorable experience by providing knowledge capsules in a storytelling format. This enables the learner to grasp the concepts quickly and helps them to apply these learnings in everyday conversations," said GBS Bindra, Chief Business Officer of Hipi.
He added, "#LearningWithHipi will set a new benchmark on how education can be effectively fused with entertainment."
With the first series of videos releasing this week, users can start their journey to improve their English and gain language skills by watching the witty superhero Lucky Singh's videos on his handle on the Hipi app.
Hipi is a leading short-form video destination that inspires creativity and passion. Made in India, Hipi has already become India's favourite short video platform for many talented creators. Hipi brings together moments of joy, inspiration, and discovery. The platform empowers brands and merchants to harness the power of storytelling and product discovery in an industry-changing, retail marketing environment.
The app can be downloaded on the Google Play store and the Apple App Store. It can also be accessed via browser at https://www.hipi.co.in
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Honest laughs: Rose (right) and Parry (second from right) star in Cockroach Theatre's The Lyons.
The Lyons Through May 25; Thursday-Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m.; $16-$20. Art Square Theatre, cockroachtheatre.com.
In Cockroach Theatre's production of The Lyons by Nicky Silver, patriarch Ben (Daly Parry) is dying. A late-detected cancer is too far advanced to treat, so the family—mother Rita (Anita Bean), daughter Lisa (Ela Rose) and son Curtis (Aaron Oetting)—gathers at his bedside to pay respects.
Silver's dialogue plays like a cross between South Park and Arrested Development, with swearing and family dysfunction for all, and the cast tears into these juicy lines with zest. Parry, in particular, delivers his caustic imprecations with a gleeful freedom that doesn't quite cover his terror.
When the play turns from straight comedy, director Taliesin McEnaney could keep things a little sharper. There are moments when actors oversell the humor, when marks are hit and monologues delivered but the characters wind up feeling thin. There are twin moments where Bean and Rose talk about the abusive men in their lives and how bound they are to them—both ladies deliver the monologues with aplomb, but the speeches seem disconnected from the rest of their performance. It's unclear how all these disparate emotions connect into a greater whole, and how they guide relationships throughout the play.
At other times, the production seems to work against the actors. A monologue from Bean, demonstrating the real horrors of living with these caustic people, gets paired with downbeat music and an abrupt shift into moody lighting, feeling like part of a different production. And a pivotal scene to open Act 2, between Curtis and a real estate broker (Nick Batton), though intentionally awkward, is staged in a way that undercuts its tension. Still, Oetting's mannered, considered performance stays strong throughout Act 2, driving to an emotional conclusion that winds up, if not triumphant, at least hopeful.
As a side note, while Tim Burris' turntable set is impressive, it seems overly large for the space. As it revolved into its second location, I worried for the toes of those in the first row.


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Review: Lourdes
A quiet and mysterious snapshot of the juncture between desperation and hope, Jessica Hausner's "Lourdes" sneaks its emotional impact under the radar and gives no answers. We are left pondering life's deep questions.
The film is set during a pilgrimage to the French town of Lourdes where, in 1858 a young girl saw a vision of the Virgin Mary and discovered healing spring waters. She reportedly led her town to be healed and now it's a pilgrimage destination for Catholics who seek healing in the same waters.
A group of pilgrims with various disabilities and ailments are on an organised trip. Amongst them is Christine (Sylvie Testud) who has Multiple Sclerosis and uses a wheelchair. The tour is strictly organised and supported by a variety of aides, with their own romantic jealousies.
When a miracle healing apparently occurs the group must deal with their own scepticism, jealousy and hopes being either dashed or renewed.
Despite being made in 2009 this film has a 1970s feel. The camera takes in long wide shots without dictating too much on the viewer. The score is sparse too, making it observational, not leading us to one conclusion or another, never passing judgement.
Amongst the careful ambiguity the film could be read as a criticism of religion, or at least of the commercialisation of it, or as a celebration of healing in different forms, not just full physical health.
Some have described this as a black comedy satire and while I did see the subtle humour in some moments I saw it more as an acute observation of desperation. Two women constantly discuss healing miracles within clear earshot of Christine, for whom the prospect of leaving her wheelchair has a deep impact. Only to speculate about dessert a moment later.
Supporting characters are so well drawn that they convey a whole world of deep emotion with one wordless look. They have all been suffering for so long and are desperate for change. They long for a blessing, a healing, a miracle, so much that they are heartbroken over and over again when these things don't come.
One mother cares for her severely disabled daughter as she watches another person rise from their wheelchair. The look in her eyes is all we need to feel her deep jealousy and sense of injustice. Why would one person be healed but not her daughter? Has she not been devoted to prayer and pilgrimage for years?
Deep questions about religion are conveyed through snippets of conversations. Could a lifetime of devotion, prayer, holy water, blessings and ritual cause god to change their divine plan? If one deeply devoted pilgrim could be suddenly struck down while another faithless person is healed it seems we can't change anything through prayer the only reason to keep going is hope. But perhaps it's better to try than do nothing at all, despite having hopes dashed over and over again.
We're asked to consider whether healing should be entirely physical or whether healing of the soul is just as important, if not more so. It's easy for a healthy able-bodied person to pose that hypothetical question but for these characters, and for many disabled people of faith it's a question of real significance.
The final question of whether a miracle did indeed take place is left for us to decide. Is a sudden albeit temporary relief from a long term condition a miracle in itself or does only permanent change "count"? Certainly there are is no charlatan tricks involved. As we know, there are plenty of predators ready to prey on vulnerable people desperately looking for healing.
The theme of disability or long term health condition is a difficult one to approach, especially hand-in-hand with religion and all the conflicting emotions and beliefs that can bring up. But with gentle and ambiguous handling, Hausner manages to create a space where any belief and outlook on life is welcome. The characters are shown in various stages of acceptance around their conditions and, excepting one moment, they are treated with dignity at all times.
Whatever your stance on religious healing there is a deep well of humanity in this deliberately even-handed film.


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Meet The Twilite Tone
Chicago-based producer signs to Stones Throw
The Twilite Tone – Photo by Christine Ciszczon
Chicago based producer The Twilite Tone has signed to Stones Throw. His new single "Space Invaders" is out now.
The Twilite Tone, aka Anthony Khan, is a three time Grammy-nominated musician and producer, who has worked with artists including Kanye West, Common, Gorillaz and My Brightest Diamond.
On "Space Invaders", Tone re-purposes classic sci-fi tropes to comment on society today. In this context, he says, space refers to "the myth that there is not enough room for everyone, or there are not enough resources in this world for all" especially in this climate [where people are othered as] 'aliens' when we are all indigenous to this planet. "Space Invaders" also refers to gentrification – "people from a colonizing point of view, new occupants moving into an established neighborhood, acting as if they discovered the area and as if the people there are not relevant or, worse, alien."
The track title also refers to Tone's personal life: "I have a 9-month-old daughter. I had people in my life voice concern over me having a new baby and family, thinking it would infringe upon my "space", time, energy and career. This couldn't be further from reality. It has given me new purpose and drive and my capacity to elevate and expand as an artist, father and human being is infinite."
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PSD to Magento Conversion: An Easy Way for Striking Web Portal!
Online business has become the trend in today's world. Everyone is looking for an online store, due to which, e-commerce has got popularity in a short period of time. Most of the business owners want to come online with their business. They may opt the PSD to Magento conversion to make their websites responsive and delightful.
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Choosing the Magento platform helps you develop the attractive and user-friendly e-commerce store. For selecting the best stage, one should need to know about the profit of the conversion service. There are so many benefits of this conversion. Let's have a look at these benefits.
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Amazing facts about human brain.
Today I'm going to deal with amazing facts about human brain.
The brain which is the most important organ of human is being the most amazing creation of the nature. It is a highly sensitive and complex organ and being at the top of the body covered with a skull.
The blood flow continuously goes through the brain spontaneously making the brain cells alive. The blood flow is highly concentrated with oxygen and glucose.
You see, your brain has about hundred billion neurons as many stars as in the Milky Way galaxy. Each of these, neurons is connected to others by synapses, the junctions between neurons. They are not fixed.
Next amazing fact is neuroplasticity of the brain. This property of the brain is most important. The junctions between neurons call synapses which can appear or disappear.
Furthermore, newly born neurons can produce continuously throughout our lifespan. This process is called neuro-genesis.
Neuro cells of the brain send signals at a speed of hundred meters per second. This speed is necessary to send the signals as fast as possible.
Normally, the human brain is divided into two hemisphere. They are left and right hemispheres connected by a bundle of nerve fibers. Parts of your brain has particular functions and they aren't entirely symmetrical.
We have to look at the responsibilities of the left brain. It controls all the muscles on right hand side of the body. As an example language procession occurs mostly on the left of brain. Furthermore, it controls the logical side of the human beings, ability of science and mathematics, number skills and analytic thoughts are the other functions.
Moreover, the right brain controls the left side of the body. It controls creativity, imaginations, art and music awareness and left hand functions.
It's no doubt that you are fascinated by the facts that I presented so far about the worthy brain.
I have to present some more interesting facts of brain for your awareness.
Although some animals can regenerate neurons, human beings can't regenerate cells of the central neurons system. Your 100 billion neurons do different types of jobs.
Although your brain only makes about less than 3% of your whole body. It takes up a 20% of energy to operate the functions of the brain. Most of this energy uses to maintain brain.
Normally the size of brain is immaterial on the massive functions that the brain has to carry out.
No doubt, your brain is made up mostly of water. That's why, when the brain is dehydrated, you feel dizzy and memory is malfunctioning. Always the brain needs liquid nutrients. Keep in your mind brain cells can't survive without oxygen and glucose.
It is unbelievable that the capability of illuminating light bulb by the power brain. How can such a small body part is capable of generating electricity.
As you may know or not? The brain is working mostly on electrical impulses.
This helps us to think and to act the way of we do.
The most amazing thing, if you can measure these electrical impulses, you will discover that your brain consumes about 25 watts of power while you are awake.
Can think faster than a computer?
The human brain can think faster than a computer. Normally our brain can compute 10 to 13 and 10 to 16 operations per second.
Actually, the human brain can solve computing problems much quicker than a computer.
Now, I am pointing out another fascinating fact about the brain. Our brain always likes to fool us. Basically, it likes to select whatever you are holding about the world. The brain never logically likes to accept the ideas against the awareness still in the brain, although evidence is really true.
Another amazing fact is that brain surgery can be performed while the patient is awake. The brain has no pain receptors and feels no pain.
Furthermore brain has the ability to wander. So when the brain is at rest, thoughts are almost active always, such as day dreaming.
Another thing is that it has short working memory and can hold on average a maximum of seven digits. That's why, in America you have got seven digit numbers for telephones.
Most of the scientists argue that there is no evidence of increasing power of mind by playing classical music for babies.
However, it is found another important fact you to see babies who play musical instrument can develop their mental skill rather than those who don't play musical instruments.
To promote the brain development of a child, you should urge the child to read and talk aloud in front of them. You should not expect to talk politely from your child.
I have to say another fine thing. If you can laid out all the blood vessels in your brain end to end, they would stretch half way to the moon. It's about one hundred and twenty thousand miles.
When you are feeling tired? You start yawning. It cools down the brain. When you don't sleep, brain temperature rises. Then, yawning helps to cool down your brain temperature.
Another amazing fact is that neurons increase by more than 200 000 neurons per minute in someone who is pregnant? But scientists have no answer, exactly what causes this?
So, it can be assumed that learning new ideas remembering all ones can be much easier for someone who is pregnant?
I'm very happy to give you very fascinating and amazing facts and figures about the highly sophisticated and worthy brain. If you are able to enhance your knowledge with my speech, I feel that I have achieved my goal.
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What Did SanDisk Just Buy? Forbes blog by John Webster
By John Webster, Tuesday, June 17th 2014
On June 5, 2014, Fusion-io executives invited industry analysts to a one-day product announcement and company strategy update. Eleven days later, SanDisk announced that it intended to acquire Fusion-io for $1.1B in cash as it builds out its enterprise flash and solid state device strategy. Not surprisingly, there was no indication of an impending acquisition during the June 5 event.
Since its founding in 2006, Fusion-io has gone through some product transitions and management changes. The June 5 event offered industry analysts an opportunity to assess the progress of Fusion-io under the current management team. During this session, Fusion-io revealed its Atomic Series of PCIe-based flash storage modules and talked about its go-to-market strategy going forward that included tightening relationships with OEM, ISV and channel partners. As if to underline that point, Fusion-io later announced that HP would be the first OEM to integrate the Atomic Series with its ProLiant servers.
In a subsequent conference call yesterday, San Disk executives indicated that they would continue to sell and support the entire Fusion-io product line—both server-based and appliance-based Flash storage products—and continue relationships with existing Fusion-io customers, OEMs, and channel partners. Further details regarding the acquisition are well documented…on the Forbes.com site.
What I would like to add is simply this: In an increasingly software-defined IT world, it's the software that counts. And SanDisk now owns some interesting Fusion-io developed software. This includes:
Atomic Write—simultaneously writes multiple, non-contiguous storage blocks to Flash as a single transaction. For MySQL environments, this eliminates the need to provide atomicity via a double write buffer.
NVM Compression—doubles the useable capacity of Fusion's ioMemory Flash
Write Vectoring—non-persistent write activity is directed to server flash, obviating the need to send these I/Os to disk. The net effect is to even further enhance application on Flash performance.
Read Cache—offloads reads from backend storage to local server-based Flash cache
Transparent File Sharing – Allows virtual machines to access data locally from server-side Flash rather than from shared external storage. TFS also provides in-line deduplication of all VDI desktops hosted on a server.
It is likely that SanDisk will now deliver these software-based enhancements in current and future Flash product offerings that include server-side Flash (Atomic Series for example) and Flash-based storage appliances (ioN Accelerator). These will be targeted at enterprise application acceleration opportunities like MySQL, SAP HANA, Hadoop HBase, mongoDB and others as well as VMware and VDI environments to further address server sprawl. One can also expect to see SanDisk express its advancement in NAND Flash technology including 3D NAND in future Fusion-io solutions.
Fusion-io has been perhaps the most aggressive and successful of the PCIe-attached, server-side Flash players. However, these types of implementations can require customers who buy these products "off the shelf" to open and reconfigure servers. For enterprise IT administrators this can be a complicated process—particularly so when hundreds of servers are contemplated. Therefore, some in the storage industry believe that the use of UltraDIMM solid state devices that connect directly to the server motherboard will eventually fill this market space. But because SanDisk is also a supplier of UltraDIMM technology, they can now have it both ways.
During the June 16 call, SanDisk executives said that they will continue to invest in PCIe flash technology. In addition they will use the Fusion-io acquisition to build-out its entire portfolio of enterprise-directed solid state device offerings that will include all-flash arrays. Make no mistake. SanDisk now has its sights set on the enterprise data center where the like of EMC and NetApp live. It has the storage hardware of the future and is building and acquiring the necessary software to differentiate.
The value proposition of software defined infrastructure depends on having a ready and cheap supply of commodity hardware. But what happens when a commodity player decides that it isn't content to be relegated to mere "commodity" status? To see, watch SanDisk.
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Surviving the Era of Peak Automobile, part I: The problem :: SANDERS RESEARCH ASSOCIATES LTD.
It has become clear to many that we have entered a period of Peak Oil, that is, global production is at or near its all-time high, and will shortly start coming down. Since the single greatest use of petroleum is for the automobile, and since the automobile has been designed, marketed, and produced as an oil-eating machine, it seems reasonable to conclude that simultaneous with the peak of oil production shall come the peak of automobile production. That which oil giveth, oil can taketh away.
The automobile is the yet invented by humankind. The Union of Concerned Scientists rates it at number two, behind nuclear weapons, but automobiles continue to kill more than 40,000 people per year in the U.S. alone. More ominously, doomsday scenarios involving the effects of petroleum use may be scarier than the nuclear winter warnings advanced in the 1980s. Petroleum, and therefore by extension the automobile, are directly responsible for three impending catastrophes: global warming, peak oil, and the resultant oil wars. In addition, oil contributes to perhaps the worst future scenario, general global ecological overshoot and collapse. It is the interactions and feedback loops among these problems, with petroleum/automobiles at their core, that should give pause to everyone on the planet.
To use the terminology of the authors of The Limits of Growth: The 30-year update , petroleum creates both a source and a sink problem. When modeling the use of resources in the long-term, we want to know if the resource is being used up, and if so, at what rate. We want to know if the output of the resource during use can be handled by a "sink", in the same way water harmlessly goes down a sink, or whether the sink will overflow and affect the rest of the system.
Petroleum is a nonrenewable resource. There is no way to replenish stocks. Strictly speaking, then, there is always a source problem with oil, since eventually it will all go away. As the anti-Peak Oil writers never tire of telling us, people have been warning about the imminent end of the supply of oil for one hundred years. There is a very good reason this happened: Oil is going to run out, and we don't really know when. It would therefore seem to be the height of folly to build an entire industrial system based on the substance. There were two main reasons why this is exactly what happened.
First, consider the automobile. Not exactly the automobile, but more precisely, the automobile companies. In fact, it's not even true to talk of the automobile companies in the 1920s, since the banks during this period were busy squeezing out many of the original owners as the bankers came to understand that the automobile had become the kind of money source that the railroad had been a generation earlier, as Linda Minor has shown.
In fact, the automobile-financial complex did its best to destroy the utility of the railroad industry so that it could leave people with only one "choice", the automobile. Even greater than the power to force people to choose one among many alternatives is the power to affect which choices one has in the first place. Such was the modus operandi of the "Highway Lobby", that conglomeration of car, auto, and tire companies that bought up local trolley and bus companies, killing them, and pushing for the use of government to create a "free market" of automobiles.
Apparently, there was a complex process whereby the cultural appeal of the United States transformed itself into the universal desire of all societies to have the same miserable system of highways and cars as the U.S.; witness China and even India's mad rush. There are now over 500 million automobiles in the world.
As we see so vividly now, the same banking and financial complex that helped bring the automobile industry in the U.S. into existence is now presiding over its demise. Wall Street egged on Ford, GM and Chrysler in the 1980s and 1990s, applauding the transformation of those companies from companies that made cars to companies that sell SUV and light trucks, vehicles that now account for up to two/thirds of their output and all of their vehicle profits. Maximum short-term profits were made out of minimum oil prices. But now the companies have "legacy" costs, in other words, their thousands of workers who actually created the profits for these companies and Wall Street for decades need pensions, so as far as Wall Street is concerned the car companies can go bust. Instead of redirecting capital into a new, sustainable transportation and energy system, the U.S. financial system is doing to the entire U.S. manufacturing economy what it has done to the car industry; it is milking it for its assets, and then tossing aside its worthless hull.
The second major impetus to petroleum addiction in the 20th century was oil's use for the military. A coal-powered tank will not do. Not being limited to railway networks when transporting troops or equipment means using troop carriers, trucks, and tanks. No military has plans to convert to solar gliders or wind-operated tanks, thank you. The military has translated its oil addiction into its top priority in order to not only safeguard gas for the consumer, but more importantly, petroleum for its tanks, planes, and ships. The military's top priority should actually be to maintain the health of the manufacturing base on which it depends to build those tanks, planes, and ships; but apparently the military has the same disease as their corporate brethren -- they seem to think they can just buy the machinery from anyone that they want.
As the declining supply of oil becomes clear, as Michael T. Klare shows in Blood and Oil , the potential for great power war will rise greatly. Currently the U.S., Russia, and China are playing a "great game" of power in the Central Asian and Persian Gulf areas, trying to jockey for position. The U.S. would like to use its military dominance to force China in particular to bend to its will, if oil should become short in supply. In the extreme case, the military of the U.S. and other countries will be forced to squander much of their remaining petroleum reserves in a vain but bloody attempt to postpone the state of immobilization that will accompany a final collapse in oil supply.
The automobile-dominated transportation system would be very expensive to replace, but not as expensive as rebuilding the housing and commercial building stock that was located on the assumption of cheap gas, highways and automobiles. Housing stock within the cities has been starved, so that now the only real housing construction is for upper class residents. The middle class has no choice but to move to the suburbs, as this author can attest, and once in the suburbs, the configuration of shopping, schools, and transportation networks conspires against the would-be pedestrian or cyclist (at this writing, your intrepid reporter is only just surviving without a car).
In his book Collapse , Jared Diamond argues that the ability to change a "core value" is one of the most important ways to avoid catastrophe. The automobile has become a core value. It is valued for its own sake; most people cannot even imagine a life without cars. And so it is that an entire civilization has been built on a transitory pool of boiled-down ancient algae.
The choice of the use of the nonrenewable resource of petroleum has been driven by the automobile and the military. The awareness of the precariousness of the supply of this choice of fuels, the concept of peak oil, seems to rise or fall depending on today's price of gasoline at the pump. The inevitable pre-election drop in oil price has latter-day Panglosses crowing about the fading away of Peak Oil ideas and Prius hybrid cars. Figuring out the true state of global oil supply is not only a scientific problem, but involves the political problem of trying to get information from people who profit from not providing it. That civilization goes blithely driving along without a thorough understanding of how much -- or how little -- petroleum is left underground is mind-boggling.
The other half of the problem of oil, the capacity of the earth's ecosystems to act as a sink, is dominated by the problem of global warming. At this point, however, the understanding of global warming has not yet moved from the frontal lobes of the brain of most people into the parts that really matter, the reptilian part of the brain, the part that understands whether that problem is my problem. In particular, the image of global warming in no way outweighs the emotional attachment to the automobile, which is the major culprit in the production of global warming.
The idea of global warming as a warning has the advantage over peak oil that it is presently more readily acknowledged. Also, unlike peak oil, the scientific evidence is not being jealously guarded by particular governments or oil companies. Unfortunately, however, there has probably been much less money spent on the science of global climate systems than on the science of finding petroleum, so that one of the most important scientific questions in modern history has been underfunded.
Often those warning of global warming ignore the issue of peak oil. There may be a certain comfort in proposing policy for global warming without acknowledging peak oil, because the sense of urgency can be minimized enough to have a nice rational conversation about the problem. If there really is a peak oil problem, urgency could easily turn to some form of panic. The discussants might start thinking, "Now it's getting serious". Advocating general reductions of so-and-so percentage in carbon emissions in general is one thing; looking over the cliff to find that, whatever one wishes to do, the supply of petroleum will inevitably go down by such-and-such percentage, is to feel powerless. And powerful people don't like to feel powerless.
The peak oil problem could intersect in a particularly vicious way with the global warming problem if people become so hysterical that they exacerbate global warming by trying to replace the dwindling oil with gasoline from coal or tar sands, among other substitutes.
This is where a certain amount of energy literacy becomes critical, in particular, the idea of energy return on energy input (EROEI). That is, if you use about the same amount of energy to produce energy as the energy you eventually wind up with, you really shouldn't even try, particularly if you're polluting and global warming in the process. It is not a good sign that people are able to jump on the Jack 2 discovery in the Gulf of Mexico without understanding that obtaining oil from far below the ocean's surface is not a very economical way to find gasoline for your car. The same will apply to coal and tar sands, but the lure of alleged trillions of barrels of unleaded regular may have an intoxicating affect. Even the current attempts to obtain the increasingly limited supplies of oil is making the global warming problem worse, as more and more petroleum is needed to pump out less and less "black gold".
How is the typical suburban person supposed to formulate the global warming problem? Unless you live in a big city with an efficient mass transit system, there is not much you can do.
Recently on Bill Maher's HBO Friday night talk show, the very liberal Massachusetts congressman Barney Frank had an elucidating if depressing interchange with none other than Gandalf, Sir Ian Mckellan. The great wizard pointed out that by living in London, he didn't need a car anymore. The great liberal complained, incredibly, that people who needed to make 45 minute commutes to work had been "promised" the ability to make that trip in their car using cheap gasoline. He then proposed temporarily lifting the already anemic gasoline tax. The Democrats in the coming election are in the absurd position of blaming the oil companies for high prices and high profits, which of course is all true, but they are thereby whistling past the grave. Oil prices will continue to go up, and the sooner we put in place a different transportation system, the better.
Peak oil will make global warming worse if people try to solve the peak oil problem by simply substituting coal or tar sands for petroleum. An acknowledgement of peak oil by trying to wean the society from the automobile would probably help global warming, as a real attempt to deal with global warming could help avoid a traumatic oil shock. Unfortunately, there is a way to solve both problems at once and make our problems even worse: getting fuel from biomass.
Rearing its ugly head behind and above the global warming and peak oil problems is the scenario that may be summarized in the term global ecological overshoot and collapse. To oversimplify, we may eventually run out of food and water because soils and freshwater stocks are being destroyed. If the transportation and energy system are disrupted, it will be a disaster, but if the food and water run out, then the ecosystems that can provide food and water in the future will collapse, and then the Unmentionable could happen -- humans could go extinct, along with a good percentage of the rest of the species on the planet.
One problem with the overshoot problem, besides being so scary, is that it is more difficult to boil down into a sound bite. Global warming is easy to summarize -- The earth is getting too hot. Peak oil sound bite: We're running out of oil . Overshoot? Because forests are being cut down and grasslands are being overgrazed and crops are being grown by overusing the soil, the soil is eroding; and because fishing technology has become much too efficient most fishing stocks are collapsing; and because underground freshwater aquifers are being depleted, and global warming is melting the snow that used to make freshwater (like the Yellow and Yangtze rivers), we're going to have much too little usable farmland to feed six billion or eight billion or even maybe two billion people, and they won't have enough water either, and besides, pollution is contaminating the water and soil that is left. Whew! That's going way into the commercial break.
I didn't even point out that natural gas and petroleum is used in enormous quantities to grow the crops that are destroying the soils, and the natural gas-derived fertilizers are creating huge "dead zones" in the oceans, like the one in the same Gulf of Mexico that the Jack 2 oil deposit was found, and that such petroleum use is contributing to peak oil and global warming. When the oil runs out, so will much of the food.
Some have calculated that in order to grow enough biomass to be able to fill up all the SUVs and other petroleum-sucking technologies in the U.S., more agricultural land would need to be used than currently exists. One of the main reasons that the Amazon and the Indonesian rainforests are being felled is in order to make palm oil, used for manufactured goods, and increasingly, diesel oil. Ethanol made from corn is very inefficient, and the more efficient sugar-cane ethanol from Brazil is being shut out from the U.S. free market paradise. That sugar cane is more and more being grown at the forests' expense.
Forests are one of the main carbon sinks, that is, they absorb much of the carbon emissions humanity spews, and they are much better at it than biofuel crops. Forests also keep soil from eroding. So if biofuel production results in forest destruction, biofuels will do more harm than good.
The destruction of the forests is actually the second-head of the two-headed monster of the energy crisis, because half of the world's trees are cut down in order to provide heat and timber for people in developing countries. While the rich destroy the biosphere by getting energy from fossil fuels, the poor do the same by using forests.
The poor of the earth need to be able to generate their pathetically small amount of energy without destroying the remaining forests. The technology is there, as for instance simple solar heaters, but it would take either the elites of those countries or the rich of the planet to provide this most basic form of capital, because the poor can't afford it. This is one of the central proposals in Lester Brown's book, Plan B .
Global warming will make the state of the forests worse and the destruction of forests makes global warming worse. Theoretically, forests will advance to higher latitudes, but this process will take too long to provide the carbon-sinking services needed to avoid the positive feedback cycle of destroyed forests leading to even worse global warming because, not only will the forests not be there to soak up the carbon, they will start to release carbon as they decompose and are burned by fire, just as fossil fuels are releasing built-up natural carbon.
The worst nightmare situation would be a return to what is prosaically called the Permian boundary. Now the focus of a fair amount of research, it appears that 250 million years ago, the earth underwent a global warming that was so bad that over 90% of the species where wiped out. This disaster probably created the ecological space for the dinosaurs to emerge and dominate, until they were wiped out by a meteor 65 million years ago, leading to the ecological space for mammals and then humans to emerge, leading to… well, the species that fails to learn the lessons of history is doomed to repeat them.
We are beset by positive feedback loops. Peak oil could lead to the use of worse greenhouse gas generators. Global warming in conjunction with forest destruction is leading to the breakdown of agricultural systems and water sources, which will lead to wars over food and freshwater. Declining supplies of oil will lead to less food and more wars for oil. Wars will use up oil, ensconce people in power who have no desire or ability to peacefully or sustainably solve these problems (such as the current U.S. administration). And mostly because of the automobile.
But what was that they're talking about on the TV news? Terrorism? What? Abortion? Gay marriage? Excuse me? Those are threats to civilization? Who knew! Wait, here comes a commercial…I guess I could always feel better by going out and buying a car.
[Part 2 will explore an alternative to Peak Automobiles and its consequences. Jon Rynn's blog at globalmakeover.com contains information about new articles and data concerning these and other problems.
 Dr. Colin Campbell, founder of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas http://www.peakoil.net/ , is on the advisory board of Sanders Research.
 According to Charles Komanoff, in his Ending the Oil Age , Table 1, in the U.S. the automobile uses 40.7% of oil, trucks use 12.7% of oil, air 7.8%, the military 1.5%.
 Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows, Limits to Growth: The 30-year update (Chelsea Green, 2004).
 "Unwarranted Influence and Misplaced Power ", July 13, 2006, Linda Minor.
 Jane Holtz Kay, Asphalt Nation: How the automobile took over America and how we can take it back , 1998.
 In Michael T. Klare's Blood and Oil: The dangers and consqequences of America's growing dependency on imported petroleum , the interweaving of oil and the military is shown in gory detail.
 According to the Survey of Current Business, September 2006, Page 23, the current cost of residential assets is $15.8 trillion. Nonresidential structures are $8.8 trillion.
 For instance, see Richard Heinberg's The Party's Over: Oil, war and the fate of industrial societies , second edition, 2005.
 See Limits to Growth , although they do not discuss extinction or what a collapse would look like.
 For one discussion, see pages 171-175 in The Party's Over.
 For example, "Impact from the Deep" by Peter Ward in Scientific American , October 2006.


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If you've decided to get dental Implants in Cranford NJ, an oral surgeon will have to insert them into your jawbone. Since this is a surgical procedure, you'll be given an anesthesia before the surgeon begins placing the implants into your mouth. Below you'll discover how dental implants are placed into your gums during surgery and what to expect after the procedure is finished.
The surgeon will cut into your gums until he reaches the bone. After the bone is exposed, he will drill a hole down deep into the bone. Next, he will place a metal post down into the hole. After the surgery, it will take approximately six months for the jawbone to grow around the metal post. After the waiting period, the surgeon will make a cut in your gum to expose the top of the metal post. A metal insert, called an abutment, is secured into the top of the implant. After a few weeks, your dentist will place a crown on top of the abutment.
During the six months while your mouth is healing, you'll be able to wear a temporary denture. Some patients prefer to have the abutment placed into the implant during the first surgical step. While this keeps you from having the second procedure done, the metal abutment will be visible in your mouth and you won't be able to wear a temporary denture during the healing process.
After your oral surgeon performs the surgery for your dental Implants in Cranford NJ, you'll be able to go home the same day. This is done as an outpatient surgery so you won't have to stay in the hospital overnight. Your gums and face may be swollen for a few days after the procedure and you may also have bruising on your face and gums. Your oral surgeon can give you a prescription for pain medication because you'll probably have some discomfort for a few days after the surgery.
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Today in Hamburg, Commerzbank presented its market assessments of the wind energy market, ahead of Wind Energy Hamburg, which takes place from 25 to 28 September 2018. "We continue to observe a robust global expansion in renewable energies with a further decrease in production costs," is the conclusion drawn by Berthold Bonanni, head of the Energy unit (CoC Energy) at Commerzbank AG.
Regionally, Commerzbank forecasts strong annual growth in the Asia-Pacific region, and in particular in the offshore sector. In contrast, it is expected that Germany will see a brief decline in 2019, however growth of the onshore wind sector in Germany is expected to normalise from 2020.
The global trend of competitive bidding procedures puts pressure on remuneration rates. For example, the number of countries which utilise competitive bidding has increased from 64 in 2015 to 84 in 2017. In the EU this has been mandatory since 2017. "In our experience competitive bidding leads to lower remuneration rates because pricing is closely linked to the decline in production costs," observes Bonanni.
Commerzbank AG, with its Center of Competence Energy (headquarters in Hamburg), is one of the leading financiers of renewable energies with a loan volume of around €4.5 billion in project financing and around €0.7 billion in corporate financing. Commerzbank has financed ca. 15% of the wind capacity in Germany to date.


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Pictured (left to right): Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, Head of Transneft Nikolay Tokarev. Photos: courtesy of the Russian Government's press service
During the meeting, Mr. Tokarev spoke of the Company's performance in 2017 and its plans for 2018. Last year Transneft pumped 477 million tonnes. "This is about 90% of the total crude production," added Mr. Tokarev. This year the amount of crude oil to be pumped over the Transneft system is expected to reach the level of 2017 or slightly surpass it.
According to Mr. Tokarev, capital investments of Transneft are expected to total some RUB 256 billion in 2018, of which RUB 200 billion will be invested in the overhaul and revamping of oil pipelines.
During the meeting Prime Minister Medvedev expressed his hope that by 2020 Transneft would reach the planned figure of 97% regarding procurement of domestically made equipment. Head of Transneft Nikolay Tokarev informed him that domestic products already accounted for 93% of all products used by Transneft, as part of the import substitution programme, the remaining 7% being electronics and telecom products. "However, by 2020 we must raise the share of domestic products procured by Transneft to 97%. This is a real and feasible goal, given that we have everything we need, including financing," said Tokarev.
"This is a good goal; hopefully, it will be achieved," said Mr. Medvedev.
Mr. Tokarev also reminded that some time earlier Transneft had launched a plant to produce oil pumps in Chelyabinsk, with Prime Minister participating in the opening ceremony. "The plant has already reached the planned capacity and manufactured 240 pumps; in other words, we fully meet the demands of the pipeline industry, and now our neighbors – oil pipeline companies from the near abroad – are interested in these products," said the Company's President. He also informed Prime Minister that the construction of a plant to produce electric motors had been completed, noting that the commissioning works were due to begin in May. "So we invite you to launch a second plant in September," Mr. Tokarev said to Prime Minister Medvedev.
In his turn, Mr. Medvedev described import substitution as a priority. "Import substitution is key to successful economic development, including the sphere of crude oil production, transportation, refining as well as all other hydrocarbon-related services. So the fact that the first plant has already reached its planned capacity and the second plant is being completed is good news; when you are ready to launch the second plant, be sure to report," Prime Minister concluded.
Based on the materials of TASS, NA Interfax, INA Russia Today


Make a cat scratching pad from recycled cardboard Girl Scout cookie cartons or any substantial corrugated cardboard you want to recycle. Cats are always looking for a place to test their claws and what better use of a material that would otherwise end up in the landfill. Girl Scout Cookie sale time is the perfect time to make a quantity of these and would make a good project for your 3 Cheers for Animals journey or your Pet Badge. Check with your local animal rescue facility and see if they would like to have some of these scratching pads for their furry inhabitants as they wait for adoption.
Cut several strips of the cardboard approximately 2 " x 15″ depending on the size of your cardboard. Since corrugated cardboard can be hard to cut and the instruments suggested can be dangerous if not handled properly, we recommend an adult take responsibility for this step.
Lay the first strip flat on your newspaper. Take the next strip and cover with glue and lay it on top of the first one. Continue in this manner until you have enough layers to make a pile about 4″ high.
Put a weight on top of the pile to hold it while it dries and becomes sandwiched tightly together.
When completely dry, sprinkle with a little catnip if you wish and give to a lucky cat for their scratching pleasure.
Ditto the cat in our feature picture and her sister, Leyda liked their scratcher just fine even without the catnip.


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