In my high school writing classes, I like to use a certain activity I've called "Free Write Fridays". Essentially, it allows students to write about whatever they want to for at least one period of their week. Granted, we pride ourselves on offering our students a lot of choice in our instructional design at Indy Met, I have a rationale that is tethered to a different motivation than the typical research backing ways to improve student engagement.
Even though Google cracked down on their "20% Time" in 2013, it is ingrained in their corporate culture. If you're late to this story, the essence of 20% Time is that Google employees had free rein to work on projects of their own curiosity one day a week. Allegedly, some of Google's most innovative and popular projects were developed by employees during these weekly work session. Gmail is likely the most notorious 20% Time project.
Celebrated author, Dan Pink has written about this in his book DRIVE: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. Many a business leader and educator who religiously study Pink have tried to incorporate this element of autonomy into their workplaces as well.
But if Google is feeling like the philosophy is getting away from their productivity, what will they do to replace that "crunch" on autonomy? How will they continue to fuel innovation if Pink's right and taking away a person's autonomy deflates motivation? I don't know with any certainty, but my hunch is they won't. At least privately they won't. And I won't either.
Here's my vision for my students: that their 20% time (which is only 10% time considering it's every OTHER Friday) becomes a platform for showcasing their works in progress during the other 80% (90%) of time working in my class. The difference is entirely about one's ownership of the work. A public blog over the course of a semester raises the stakes for my kids. It makes them care about how they will be perceived and—I'd like to think—makes them care more about learning the grammar and sentence structure skills necessary to craft a particular message for an even more particular audience.
For example, have a look at one of my student's blog. Darshane is writing about basketball and enjoying figuring out how to plan future writing projects expressing his passion and opinion on the sport. Let him know what you think, even offering some constructive criticism. He's the type of student who wants to build a platform for himself and contribute something meaningful to the world.
To me, that's a bargain at 20%.


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Q: iframe print not working in chrome when url starts with https
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*I have a requirement to print a page without using window.open and window.print functions.

*I achieved the same using the below code. This works if the url is not starting with https(atleast that is what I figured). If the url is starting with https then chrome print out a blank page. Sometimes on multiple clicks to print link, page data is shown. This code works correctly in IE and FireFox.
I have uploaded a sample test page with this code in below url.
http://mediateqindia.com/testPrint.html (works correctly)
https://mediateqindia.com/testPrint.html (blank page on click print link)
Both links are pointing to the same page .
How to fix this to get in working in chrome in https?
Code on page testPrint.html is given below.
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When below line was commented everthing started working fine.
frameDoc.document.write('<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
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On increasing the intervals specified for setTimeout function the above code was working intermittently.Since time required to fetch the css file would vary with server location, I rewrote the code as below which is now
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Q: When using ' ios::sync_with_stdio(0)' for testing difference in runtime, why is my output fragmented?   clock_t tStart = clock();
  ios::sync_with_stdio(0);
  cin.tie(0);
  for(int i=0;i<100000;++i) cout<<i;
  printf("\n\n\n\nTime taken: %.2fs\n", (double)(clock() - tStart)/CLOCKS_PER_SEC);
  cout<<endl;

Using this program with cout runs in 4.05 seconds but outputs some numbers even after it executes final line. Here's the details:
Time taken: 4.30s
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Using printf program runs as intended but is very slow (51 seconds). I used endl after printing time to also flush the output buffer. What's the reason for this?

A: Well you no longer synchronize C stdio (which printf uses) with the C++ stream I/O (which std::cout uses). That means they have different buffers that may be flushed (and written to the console) at different times.
Try adding a std::cout << std::flush before the printf call. Or better yet, use std::cout for the last output as well.


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Q: How to overcome sites that detecting Automated ChromeDriver? I try to automate some steps using selenium, but when getting the URL the server rejected the request, here is my argument
opts = Options()
opts.add_argument("user-agent="+getRandomeUserAgent())
opts.add_experimental_option('prefs', {'intl.accept_languages': 'en,ar;q=0.9,en-US;q=0.8'})
opts.add_argument("--enable-javascript")
opts.add_argument("--enable-cookies")
opts.add_argument("--disable-blink-features")
opts.add_argument("--disable-blink-features=AutomationControlled")
opts.add_argument('--disable-extensions')
opts.add_argument("--no-sandbox")
opts.add_argument("--disable-dev-shm-usage")
opts.add_experimental_option('excludeSwitches', ['enable-automation'])

driver = webdriver.chrome.webdriver.WebDriver( chromrdriverPath, options=opts)
driver.set_page_load_timeout(timeout)
driver.get(URL)

it works fine when using the normal browser (not-automated)
when sending the HTTP request, the site receives the request and redirects it to another page to check the browser if detected, refuse the request, and if not detected redirect to WantedPage.
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by Warren H. Carroll
In this brief essay on the papacy, noted historian Dr. Warren Carroll discusses its institution, its authority and its record of doctrinal orthodoxy.
Catholic Dossier
Ignatius Press, March/April '98
The institution of the papacy is unique on earth. It is not necessary to refer to Catholic doctrine in order to uphold this premise. The facts would compel a truly objective secular or Protestant historian to assent to it as well.
First of all, there is the immense antiquity of the papacy. If the first Easter is dated in 30 A.D. (which seems most likely) and St. Peter's assumption of primacy in the Church from Pentecost Sunday of that year, the papacy will be one thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight years old this spring. We may search the world today in vain for any institution, any unbroken chain of succession, which dates back anywhere near that far.
We are not speaking merely of a name or a title maintained because of a traditional veneration while its substance was fundamentally changed. The authority claimed and exercised by the Bishop of Rome has been essentially the same from the beginning. A careful reading of the first known papal document (excepting the two letters of St. Peter in the New Testament), the letter of the fourth Pope, St. Clement I, to the Corinthians about 95 A.D., shows the most remarkable similarities in tone and content to today's public statements by Pope John Paul II. To appreciate the full force of this historical continuity, it should be contrasted with the enormous differences — the result of sweeping changes in culture — separating almost any other document of that period, whether political, literary or philosophical, from a document in the same field today.
What other historical institution anywhere in the world may be compared to the papacy? The titles and public ceremonial surrounding the offices of Pharaoh of Egypt and Emperor of China did endure for a longer period of years than the papacy has so far, in much slower-moving times: but where are they now? As an old prophecy of the Mongols of the steppes of Asia foretold, "the Son of Heaven has vanished, and the white Tsar is no more." The titles and ceremonials of Pharaoh and Son of Heaven were intimately bound up with the single long-lasting culture which sustained them; they did not survive its fall. The papacy survived one of the greatest catastrophes of history, the fall of the Western Roman Empire; it survived the breakaway of the Greek church of the Eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire; it endured essentially unchanged from one civilization (classical Graeco-Roman) to another, that of the modern West. And its authority is accepted by millions in lands which historically were not part of Western civilization at all, notably the Philippines, Korea, Vietnam, and central Africa.
Do other religions offer a parallel? There are not nearly so many of them as people tend to think. Universal religions — those with a substantial following in more than one culture — are the rarest of all historical phenomena. Excluding the special case of Judaism, mostly confined to one ethnic group though geographically widespread, there are only three: Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism.
Islam, in this as in many other ways a distorted echo of Christianity, had its partial counterpart to the Pope in the Khalif — the Commander of the Faithful — who was originally the supreme temporal head of the followers of Muhammad, and remained their spiritual leader for some time after losing temporal power. But where is the Khalif today? The office no longer exists.
Buddhism, which began as a world-denying nonreligious philosophy and developed into a complex mystical pantheism, has never had an international organization despite its international and intercultural spread in Asia, and never a single leader of its faithful.
Within Christianity itself there have been many churches which at various times have broken away from Catholic unity and denied the authority of the Pope Some have had no head and wanted none. Others have made a secular ruler their head. Others have attempted to maintain a patriarchal succession from early Christian times. But there are breaks in every chain, some lasting for centuries. The Russian Orthodox church, for example, has been trying to discover who its rightful head is, ever since the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453.
By contrast with these other Christian religious institutions which might seem to have points in common with it, the papacy has grown stronger and its followers more united with the passing years. The last antipope with a significant following abandoned his claims no less than 549 years ago. The moral character and personal courage of every Pope for the past two centuries, beginning with Pius VI who heroically resisted the efforts of the French Revolution to destroy the Church, has been beyond reproach. These last fifteen Popes have not only taught truth as Catholics know they must, but also have been shining examples of the Christian life in their own persons, which by no means all Popes have been. Our present Pope is, by any rational standard, the greatest man alive today.
In the 1968 years since the birthday of the Church on Pentecost Sunday, 264 men have sat in the Chair of Peter (the complete list of Popes used as a basis of this article appears in Newman G. Eberhardt, A Summary of Catholic History (1962) I, 824-830 and II, 815-816, with Popes after 1962 added). At least nine of them died as martyrs for the Faith; six more were assassinated. Twenty-four died before completing their first six months in office. Forty-nine men have challenged the right of one or more of these 264 to be Pope. On fourteen occasions this was done by attempting to depose a Pope whose valid election was admitted, while in the other cases the challenge was to the validity of his election or to that of one of his immediate predecessors. Seven Popes resigned their office. And out of all that list of 264, only four ever faced a serious challenge to their doctrinal orthodoxy from within the Church. Just one of the 49 antipopes based his claim in part on alleged heresy of the Pope — and that antipope was later reconciled to the Church and died a martyr literally at the side of a later Pope, and with him is venerated as a saint.
Out of this unique and fascinating historical record, several points deserve special comment. First of all is the record of doctrinal orthodoxy, so extraordinary as to be wholly inexplicable without the intervention of the Holy Spirit. That 264 men with the full power to define Christian doctrine should do so in such perfect harmony with each other over two thousand years, with only four instances in which their orthodoxy was even seriously questioned, is plainly and simply miraculous. Even the antipopes were rarely heretical. By contrast, the occupants of the patriarchal see of Alexandria during little more than two centuries (440-660) included eleven orthodox Catholics, thirteen Monophysite heretics, and two Monothelite heretics. The histories of the patriarchal sees of Antioch and Constantinople are similar. In the seventeenth century there was even a Patriarch of Constantinople (Cyril I Lucaris, 1620-35 and 1637-38) who was a Calvinist!
The four Popes whose orthodoxy was challenged were the 16th Pope, St. Callistus I (217-222); the 36th Pope, Liberius (352-366); the 71st Pope, Honorius I (625-638); and the 196th Pope, John XXII (1316-1334). According to his critic and rival, the first antipope, St. Hippolytus, Pope St. Callistus I favored the Monarchian heresy which in his time was circulating a profession of faith stating that as man Jesus is the Son, but as God he is the Father. Before becoming Pope, St. Callistus was closely associated with Sabellius, the leading promoter of this heresy. But after becoming Pope, St. Callistus condemned Sabellius for heresy and excommunicated him. St. Hippolytus was finally reconciled with the Church and papal authority, and died a martyr during one of the Roman imperial persecutions of the Church, along with Pope St. Pontian.
Liberius was Pope at the height of the Arian heresy, when at one point all the bishops in the Roman world who were allowed to function as such by the Emperor Constantius had been compelled to condemn St. Athanasius, who was upholding the orthodox faith almost alone except for the common people. Liberius was imprisoned, certainly ill-treated, probably tortured. He agreed to condemn Athansius — unjustly, as he later admitted. (Popes are not infallible in individual disciplinary decisions.) He agreed to sign an ambiguous confession of faith, the Third Formulary of Sirmium, which was capable of an Arian interpretation subordinating the Son to the Father — yet he added to the document, even from his prison, anathema on all who said "the Son is not like the Father in substance and in all things." And he steadfastly refused to sign the Second Formulary of Sirmium, an undoubtedly heretical document proclaiming that "the Father is greater than the Son." Though many people at the time had the impression that Pope Liberius had endorsed Arianism, the documents show that he never did.
A similar situation arose in the pontificate of Honorius I. The Emperor Heraclius at Constantinople gave his support to a Christology intended as a compromise with the Monophysite heretics who denied Christ's human nature, which in fact was a heresy itself — Monothelitism, the doctrine that Christ has two natures but only one will, which is divine rather than human. (A man without a human will is not a man.) Patriarch Sergius of Constantinople accepted the new heresy and wrote to Pope Honorius I explaining Monothelite teachings in a carefully expurgated and toned-down manner, and asked the Pope's opinion. Honor ius replied that he thought it would be vain to dispute the issue as Sergius had explained it, and refused to give an opinion. Sergius then distributed the Pope's letter all over the East as proof that Monothelitism was not heretical, though actually the letter said nothing of the kind. No real difficulty regarding papal infallibility would ever have arisen from this — since obviously teaching heresy and refusing to denounce a heresy at a particular time are wholly different things — were it not for the fact that the Third Ecumenical Council of Constantinople, which condemned the Monothelite heresy in 681, forty-three years after Pope Honorius I died, also condemned him as a heretic because of his letter to Sergius. However even the decrees of an ecumenical council are not binding on the whole Church unless and until, and to the extent that, they are confirmed by the Pope. Pope St. Leo II (681-683) did confirm the acts of the council, but he also noted explicitly that Pope Honorius was being condemned for tardiness and negligence in not denouncing the Monothelite heresy sooner. Pope St. Leo II said nothing to indicate that he believed Pope Honorius had taught heresy or that he had assented to any condemnation of him for that reason.
The only other Pope thought to be a heretic was John XXII, one of the Avignon Popes of the fourteenth century, who in three sermons toward the end of his life argued for the proposition that the souls of the just do not enjoy the Beatific Vision immediately after their personal Judgment, but only after the general Judgment. But he also declared that he was not sure of this opinion, and invited comment by theologians upon it. Although the Church had not yet formally defined the present enjoyment of the Beatific Vision by saints as an article of faith, it was generally held to be the truth, and is affirmed today. Pope John XXII was soon persuaded by theologians at the University of Paris that his theology was incorrect, and retracted his erroneous opinion on his deathbed. In this case it is apparent that the Pope was speaking with extraordinary imprudence) as a private theologian, rather than exercising the magisterium of his office, since he invited dissent and objections, which no Pope ever does when teaching ex cathedra.
As for the other 260 Popes, no serious charge of unorthodoxy in doctrine was ever made against any of them. Probably the most spectacular instance of fidelity under enormous pressure from the most unlikely human material was provided by the 60th Pope, Vigilius (537-555), one of the three men in the history of the Church who were antipopes during the lifetime of a legitimate Pope but recognized as the legitimate Pope after the death of the prior Pope. Vigilius, a man of weak character and great personal ambition, apparently intrigued with Monophysite heretics (notably the Empress Theodora) in the court at Constantinople to bring about the arrest, exile and martyrdom of his Predecessor, Pope St. Silverius. Evidently he was expected to approve the Monophysite heresy once he became true Pope. But he stunned the Monophysites with this statement to Empress Theodora: "Far be this from me, Lady Augusta; formerly I spoke wrongly and foolishly, but now I assuredly refuse to restore a man who is a heretic and under anathema [the deposed Monophysite Patriarch of Constantinople, Anthimius]. Though unworthy, I am vicar of Blessed Peter the Apostle, as were my predecessors, the most holy Agapitus and Silverius, who condemned him." Vigilius was arrested while saying Mass in Rome, taken away as a prisoner to Constantinople for ten years, and died in exile, but he never taught, endorsed, or supported heresy.
On what basis, then, has the tenure of papal office been historically contested, since except in the single case of Pope St. Callistus I, doctrinal unorthodoxy was never the charge? Most frequently the issue has been the validity and regularity of the Pope's election. Of the 49 antipopes, 24 were rival candidates who based their claims on alleged irregularities which denied the election to them. An additional eleven succeeded to the claims of one or more of the twenty-four. There fore, in the whole history of the Church, only fourteen men have directly challenged the legitimacy of the incumbent Pope on grounds other than the circumstances of his or a predecessor's election; and in four other cases, action of some kind was taken which could be regarded as attempting to depose a Pope whose valid election was not contested.
That a Pope may resign his office is clear. It has happened seven times, all but one of which reflected great credit on the Pope involved. The first two resignations (of the 18th Pope, St. Pontian, in 235, and the 75th Pope, St. Martin I, in 655) were by Popes imprisoned, exiled and facing martyrdom, who resigned to enable a worthy successor to minister from Rome to the Church's needs. Three of the five later resignations (the 133rd Pope, Benedict V, in 964; the 149th Pope, Gregory VI, in 1046; and the 205th Pope, Gregory XII, in 1415) were cases where the Pope laid down his office voluntarily to end schism and bring peace to the Church. The case of the 192nd Pope, St. Celestine V, who resigned because he recognized his own incapacity to carry out the duties of the office, is well known. The other resignation, by the 148th Pope, Benedict IX, at a low point in papal history (1045) was apparently for personal and not very honorable reasons.
No Pope has ever resigned for reasons of health, though several of them (notably Pope Leo XIII at the beginning of this century) have lived into their nineties, and one (Clement XII, the 246th Pope) was totally blind for the last eight years of his pontificate (1732-40).
There has never been a clearly valid deposition of a Pope. There were 18 attempted depositions, mostly undertaken by secular rulers and politicians for obviously political reasons. In eight cases, the challenger who brought forward the antipope and sought to remove the existing Pope was the Emperor — Roman, Byzantine or German (Holy Roman). In four other cases, the "deposition" was simply a popular rebellion in Rome during the political nadir of the papacy in the tenth and early eleventh centuries, when Rome was in a state of virtual anarchy and the Pope had little if any help from the rest of Christendom. No pretense was made of canonical or other formal jurisdiction.
Two of the imperialist antipopes were put forward by synods assembled at the emperor's command which pretended to have the authority to depose a Pope, but in neither case was their verdict accepted by the Church or by Christendom. Both Popes retained their office and their authority and ultimately prevailed. They were the 157th Pope, the famous St. Gregory VII or Hildebrand (1073-85) and the 170th Pope, Alexander III (1159-81). Much earlier, a synod convened by King Theodoric the Ostrogoth in 501 was ordered by him to depose the 51st Pope, St. Symmachus; they refused, declaring they had no power to judge a Pope. The great Charlemagne, asked to depose the 98th Pope, St. Leo III, in 799 and 800, responded with the memorable words: "We dare not judge the Apostolic See, which is the head of all the churches of God; we are all judged by Him and His Vicar, who is judged by none, this has been the custom since the earliest ages. As the supreme pontiff decides, so shall we obey." The imperially sponsored Council of Sutri in 1046 persuaded Pope Gregory VI to resign, but doubted its authority to depose him, which in any case was not attempted because of his resignation. The Council of Sutri also went through a charade of "deposing" the preceding Pope, Benedict IX, who had resigned the year before. It would appear that a papal resignation is irrevocable, since when Benedict IX later attempted to resume the papacy he was deemed an antipope and refused election.
Finally, and probably most significant, are the two instances ofattempted deposition of a Pope by an ecumenical council, which surely should have the power to depose a Pope if anyone does. Both these grew out of the Great Western Schism, which split Christendom among rival papal claimants for half a century. Pope Urban VI was validly elected and generally recognized as Pope in 1378 but was betrayed later that year by his entire College of Cardinals, which claimed against all the evidence that his election was invalid, and named Cardinal Robert of Geneva to take his place as Clement VII. When the schism had lasted more than thirty years with no end in sight, an unauthorized council met at Pisa, declared both the true Pope and the antipope deposed, and elected a third Pope, Peter Philargis called Alexander V.
Philargis' successor convened a new council at Con stance five years later which shortly proceeded to depose him. The true Pope, Gregory XII, then officially recognized this council on the condition that they acknowledge him as true Pope, and immediately resigned after they had done so, in order to bring the schism to an end. The Council of Constance then selected Martin V as the 206th Pope. However, a faction of the council sought to retain supra-papal authority and, reconvening later at Basel, declared Martin's successor Eugenius IV deposed in 1439 and set up an antipope, Felix. He is the last antipope in history. Within four years he had lost all his support in Europe, while Eugenius IV still gloriously reigned.
Since then, papal elections have been more carefully regulated and the influence of secular rulers and governments almost totally eliminated. The likelihood of a genuine doubt about the validity of any Pope's election has therefore receded almost to the vanishing point. Since the lessons of history and the mind of the Church show that a Pope in office cannot be removed against his will, no way remains for his enemies to avoid the choice of recognizing or defying his authority.
Though some sheep may stray, there remains one flock and one shepherd. Death may take the shepherd, or on rare occasions he may hand over his staff to another while he still lives; but there is no other way to be rid of him. Otherwise he will stay with us, fulfilling the promises of Christ — as Pope John Paul II is fulfilling them today.
"Upon this rock" Christ built to last.
This is an abridged and slightly revised version of an article which appeared in TRIUMPH, December 1973.
© Catholic Dossier, P.O. Box 1639, Snohomish, WA 98291-1639, 1-800-651-1531.
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2019 Hanford Blues And Roots Festival
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Suddenly, Tammy!, a Lancaster rock trio that toured with Jeff Buckley, the Cranberries and Warren Zevon, will reunite at the 2019 Lancaster Roots & Blues, a Festival of Music and Art. The band is.
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May 01, 2019 · Hebden Bridge Folk Roots Festival takes place over the weekend of the 10th, 11th and 12th May 2109 and is in it's 5th year, set against the backdrop of the stunning Calder Valley. ROOTS FESTIVAL Hebden Folk Roots Festival 2019. a journey into American southern country blues and more recently, Pieces. She is set to record an album with.
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JMI's Lennie Gallant was inducted into the prestigious Canadian Songwriter's Hall of Fame at the East Coast Music Awards in Charlottetown, PEI on Sunday, May 5. The Island native also received a rare Director's Special Achievement award for a body of working spanning decades.
The Big 9 Roots Festival will be on October 5th from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. It will be a free event with a parade, kids activities during the day, vendors, gospel and blues music and historical events.
The Indian River Festival has announced the artists for its 2019 summer season. The festival, now in its 24th year, includes the best in folk, jazz, blues, roots, classical, choral, traditional and.
2019 Agnes Blues & Rock festival at Agnes Water & 1770. Tickets will go on sale in October 2018. Bonnie Kay and the Bonafides is playing at the Agnes Blues, Roots & Rock Festival on Saturday 4.30 -. 3 likes Read more + Southern Great Barrier Reef Festival Features Great Artists!
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The 2019 Beaumont Blues & Roots Festival. Tweet. Join us for the 12th Annual Beaumont Blues & Roots Festival at Four Seasons Park in the heart of Beaumont, AB! Featuring our Dream Development Main Stage plus the Jef Gibbs Stage with our all Canadian lineup, local artisan and food vendors, cabana tents for corporate/family gatherings, site-wide.
The Pleasure Island Chamber of Commerce is hosting the 34th Annual Carolina Beach Music Festival on Saturday. All three.
Once again, the Burnaby Blues + Roots Festival is returning to the BC city this year, and in 2019, the fest is celebrating its 20th anniversary. To get everyone ready for the big event, organizers.
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NC Pickle Festival (April 13) – Mount Olive hosts this annual festival, which includes a pickle eating contest and more fun. Pleasure Island Seafood Blues and Jazz Festival. to a buggy and tractor.
The Roots' musicianship was matched only by their stamina. Guitarist "Captain" Kirk Douglas demonstrated an inventive, distinctive blues-based guitar sound while also putting George Benson's.
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You might be hearing the strains of roots and blues music. performers and specific set times. The Edmonton Blues Society takes over St. Basil's Cultural Centre for its inaugural Winter Blues.
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Texada Island Blues and Roots Festival Saturday July 27, 2019 & Sunday July 28, 2019 Gillies Bay Ball Park, Gillies Bay, Texada Island. We are again celebrating music and our region. Most of our performers are local – from within 100 km of Gillies Bay.
From Cajun to country, reggae to improv, zydeco boogie to roots-rock riot, festival host band Donna the Buffalo aims for the best of what music has to offer. Their singular sound features upbeat grooves, inspirational lyrics, memorable hooks, superb musicianship and an overwhelming sense of celebration.
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If ever there was an unlikely group of candidates for moral reclamation, it's Homer's Suitors, those odious, power-hungry freeloaders who installed themselves at Odysseus' palace after he was presumed dead, intending to marry his wife Penelope, and thus assume his kingdom. And yet, Enda Walsh has done just that: Burns, Quinn, Dunne and Fitz, living out Greek myth from the drained, dirty confines of a modern day swimming pool, get to be heroes, just for one day.
Walsh's masterstroke is that he finds their contemporary parallels in the sort of buffoons who propel themselves through life, and the business world, on a Darwinian survival-of-the-fittest ethos, although only one of them, the monstrous, Brylcreemed Quinn, resplendent in pink Speedos and an Elvis-black dye job, is honest enough to admit that. Despite the trappings of 'romance' that surround them: the corny love songs on the stereo, the heart-shaped balloons, they haven't stuck themselves here for love of the unknowable Penelope, but for power. The opening dialogue is thick with the sort of amicable mistrust you'd find among contestants in the dying days of a reality television show: as these alpha (and beta) males bleat at each other that 'the game is still on' they wouldn't be out of place on The Apprentice, and Penelope judges their efforts by CCTV camera beamed straight into her living room. It's only when faced with the very real prospect of their impending deaths by angry husband that they're forced to scan their souls for any last, tiny, traces of humanity.
Walsh's characters have always been prone to lyricism, but here, finding grace notes even in amongst the self-deluded rantings of repellent men, he seems to be ascending to a higher plane. This is complex, beautiful and somehow very Irish writing, reminiscent of Synge or O'Casey: Enda Walsh, welcome to the Pantheon.
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I found these Fabulous videos the the Great Basin Costume Society on Facebook. They are made the the 60's by the BBC but really tell the story. I had to share them with you. I am going to divide them into 2 posts since there are so many. The BBC's first ever series in colour explores the history of fashion. First broadcast in 1957, the fascinating program features costume expert Doris Langley Moore and looks at fashion evolution and sources of inspiration. These videos present a rare opportunity to view authentic period costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries modeled by real people in place of mannequins. Moore delves into the why and how of fashion by addressing issues such as why cloaks resembled lampshades in the 19th century and how bustles evolved from crinolines. There are 12 videos to explore. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.


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Law Clerk, Judge Guido Calabresi
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PS3 Game Review: Last of Us DLC: Left Behind
Just finished the first DLC add-on to the amazing Naughty Dog PS3 exclusive, The Last of Us entitled Left Behind. This story focused on a vignette of Ellie immediately after Joel takes the tumble on the rebar in Colorado from the original game and she has to fix the hole where the blood's coming out so to speak. While we are guiding Ellie through this add-on of the Winter Chapter, we take intermittent flashbacks of Ellie's days in military boarding school in Boston with her best friend Riley who, up until now, was only briefly mentioned.
Game wise, it's a one hour/hour and a half quick solid play through. We pick up right in the middle of the action from the original game setting a nice sense of continuity. I didn't really know what to expect but it was a good choice on the developers to add onto the only part of the original game were we did have control of Ellie. I was not expecting to play anything additional to the original story's time frame so this was a nice surprise. It makes sense in many forms and I'm glad they went this way to keep a harder, weapon wielding, resourceful Ellie in the game. To have her doing this stuff in a flashback really would undo her hardened character as the original plot developed and it also serves as a great way to juxtapose the powerful solo Ellie mission against the much lighter Summer rendition of the character before she even knew she was immune and still much more of an adolescent. Even when you play as her in the flashback, you aren't really playing as much as guiding her through a story as she interacts with her friend and sets up a bitter-sweet bond that sets the precursor to the character we later meet in the full game. There's no real "action" so to speak until the end in the flashback scenes leading right up to the fatal attack on Riley and the events that immediately precede the final scene really puts the hook in you and their meeting and exploring still sets an atmosphere that hangs heavy with the rank and file anticipation you've come to expect. It shows that although these are characters that have grown up in this hellish world, they are still very green and act carelessly that you as a player of the first game are thinking to yourself, "be more careful...don't turn on the lights...oh man, don't play that stereo!" The creators of this game handle the girls' character development, interactions, dialogue and facial expressions in a way I've yet to see in a game and nothing seems forced at all. Very rarely do you get to live out such honestly youthful and sweet moments in a game like listening to a mixtape, playing an imaginary video game, telling jokes, messing with a magic 8-ball and playing "guns" with supersoakers...I couldn't help but smile since they were directly playing with the Supersoaker 50. A lighter side of the Last of Us but a necessary side nonetheless. The cut scenes flow with the game play so well they don't seem hamfisted or unnecessary and Ellie has been hashed out so well in the previous content that you really want to see what she is doing and thinking. A lot of love was put into this character and it definitely shows.
Our two leading ladies
I don't want to give too much away but it evokes some true emotion, not so much as the first games bigger moments but it still holds its own in my opinion. It looks amazing and really feels like its own separate story within a story. It is delivered in content in a way I only think could be in an add-on chapter and if it were spliced into or included in the original story wouldn't have worked nearly as well especially since it would have majorly taken away from the power the original games first playthough had when you start the Winter chapter with just Ellie and have no idea what happened to Joel. We are really only playing a real-time hour of Ellie's life from two different moments and this hour show us so much in character development that 6 hours of cut scenes in Metal Gear could only dream of. (Metal Gear is great, don't get me wrong but...)
Plenty of this to go around too.
The majority of the action is held in the segue of Ellie finding medical supplies for Joel's massive wound. They are hiding out in a mall in Denver and we see their second run in with the cannibals. This is the only thing that doesn't work for me because this shows that Ellie is aware that the attackers from the college are still looking for them and would have taken the gravity out of David's confession to her in the first game since she would been likely to be much more "onto" him than when he tells her his true intentions. The action is solid and the setting is nicely developed. You are mainly getting a medkit from a Med-evac helicopter crashed through the skylight. You get a nice set of background notes about the demise and fate of the surviving crew and I found it to be an "aw man" moment when you finally find the remains of much talked about Ellis who had his arm amputated by his commanding officer. It made me immediately think of the character of Ish in the sewer tunnels as you read so much about him and then his story line just vanishes. At least here, you get a "fleshed out" end to a small little story within a story. There's one very cool element added to this that the entire first story doesn't really touch upon was the occurrence of enemy survivors coming into contact with the infected. You'd think this would happen all the time but you never really see it in the sense of a three way battle. Here you get two specific instances were you get to use the infected as a tactical weapon in just as much sense a nail bomb or Molotov. It's a gameplay mechanic that sings and I loved every minute of it.
I've seen a few complaints about the pricetag of 15 bucks around this game but I very much enjoyed it and thought it was well worth it...I've paid much less for games on sale that had way more content that bored me to tears (Brothers in Arms: Hells Highway for 5 bucks comes to mind) and didn't have a fraction of the enjoyment this game fostered in me. As a story, it was great. Production was completely on par with the super high levels of the full game and the game play was a natural addition to the what made the full game many critics game of the year. I can only hope this isn't the only bit of DLC we see for this game. Maybe so since I'm hearing a sequel is planned.
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Timebelle want to reverse Switzerland's fortunes in the contest
03 May 2017 at 14:42 CEST
Timebelle will represent Switzerland at the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest with the power ballad Apollo. The band members were on good form as they arrived at Kyiv's International Exhibition Centre ahead of their first rehearsal.
Lead singer Miruna Manescu, originally from Romania, explained that Timebelle have been together in their current form for three years. "My other band members Emanuel and Samuel have known each other for ten years," she said. Miruna joked that Emanuel was still sleepy when he arrived at the venue: "His mouth is working but he's sleeping on the inside."
"Timebelle is diversity," said Miruna. The singer works on multiple projects in both Switzerland and Romania but admits that she's spent most of her time recently focusing on the Eurovision Song Contest. "Samuel was born in Germany, living in Switzerland for the last 25 years and Emanuel is also from Romania but has been living in Switzerland for the last 10 years. Our song was produced in Sweden and the title is linked to Greek mythology, so for us, we are celebrating diversity right here," she explained.
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Prior to the Eurovision Song Contest the Swiss participants promoted Apollo at the various pre-parties where they got to know the other acts. "We met so many acts, you eat breakfast with them and lunch, you spend a lot of time. It's like becoming a little family," said Samuel, before Emanuel spontaneously burst into song: "We are family," he chimed.
"We have a really nice team who created the staging of our song, I really hope the public will appreciate it," said Samuel. "The rehearsal went well, the people around us are really professional, the sound was perfect," he added. Miruna added that there are minor issues to fix, including the stairs which she walks down: "The stairs are too small and the dress is very big, but apart from that everything is really good." Emanuel added that it was a dream come true to be performing on the Eurovision stage: "It was really magnificent, it's quite difficult to fully describe the feelings actually."
Timebelle want to reverse Switzerland's fortunes in the Eurovision Song Contest. "After the last few years the Swiss public are not as confident as they once were but that is our responsibility to make them feel confident again. It's a big challenge but we take it!"
Timebelle will next take to the stage on Saturday, 6th May, for another round of rehearsals. Switzerland will take part in the second Semi-Final on Thursday, 11th of May.
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In 2010, Bart moved to Evanston, Illinois after his wife Laura became a Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. In Evanston, Bart became General Counsel for Evanston-based provider of innovative alternative energy solutions and services, and then in 2011 started his own firm, Torvik Law LLC.
At Torvik Law, Bart successfully helped hundreds of individuals to protect their rights in court. He also began working with Brendan Flaherty and Ryan Osterholm, his future partners at OFT Food Safety & Injury Lawyers, to get justice for people sickened, through no fault of their own, by food suppliers focused only on their own bottom lines rather than the health and safety of their customers. This work convinced Bart of the need to start OFT Food Safety & Injury Lawyers to protect the safety of the food we eat and help the people who are harmed when food suppliers don't put safety first.
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A Glasgow man faces criminal charges, including felony strangulation, for allegedly choking a woman Wednesday evening.
According to a criminal complaint filed by state police at Ebensburg, the woman contacted police Thursday, accusing Ira A. Lloyd, 46, of assaulting her.
The woman told police that she visited Lloyd's home at 2105 Skyline Drive to retrieve belongings she had left there.
While attempting to gather her belongings, the woman and Lloyd began to argue, according to the complaint.
The woman reported that Lloyd then threw her to the ground, police said.
Once she was on the ground, Lloyd "jumped on top of her and began strangling her," according to the complaint.
"She related that she could not breathe and eventually passed out," an officer wrote in the complaint.
The woman told police that she woke up several hours later and was initially too afraid to call 911, according to the complaint.
The woman provided a written statement, and photos of her injuries were taken before she was transported to UPMC Altoona for treatment, police said.
According to online court documents, Lloyd was arrested Thursday and arraigned before Magisterial District Judge Michael Zungali.
Lloyd faces a felony charge of strangulation, as well as lesser charges of simple assault and harassment.
As of Thursday afternoon, Lloyd remained in Cambria County Prison unable to post 10 percent of $20,000 bail, online court documents show.
He is to appear for a preliminary hearing at 1 p.m. March 13 before Zungali.


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John Patrick Woodcock (1903 – 16 January 1965) was an Irish road cyclist and Olympic competitor.

Woodcock joined the Harp Cycling Club in 1918, and dominated Irish cycling in the years 1923–33. He was the Irish record holder in the 25 miles, 50 miles and 100 kilometres road races, and represented Ireland in the 1928 Olympic Games. He took part in the cycling event at the 1928 and 1932 Tailteann Games, winning the latter to take the Queen Tailte statuette. He was one of two Irish representatives at the 1931 World Championships.

Woodcock was a founding member of the National Cycling Association in 1938, and was a life vice-president of the Harp Cycling Club. An annual race for the Jack Woodcock Memorial trophy was begun in 1966 and continued until at least 1990.

Woodcock was a member of the Old IRA. He was married with a son and three daughters.

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So often we move through our days without much consideration given to the importance of grounding.
We need to be grounded to work more synergistically in much the same ways an electrical circuit does. Positive, negative and grounding are elements of a cohesive circuit. Grounding as a daily practice will facilitate vibrant living!
Being a grounded human means moving, deciding and living from our core. One aspect of this is that sensation of making decisions from our higher self, that deeper place. Another is the feeling that we have our 'feet on the ground'. The embodiment will feel that we are in firm service to our selves, our loved ones and the world. Life moves around us and through us so rapidly at times that breathing deeply and grounding can elude us as an important aspect to vibrant living.
When you have that sensation of fogginess, confusion, too many options flying through your mind or at you – employing grounding techniques will help! These are especially useful for teenagers as hormonal shifts add a whole other layer of factors that may leave us feeling ungrounded (yes both us and them).
There are many methods for grounding and your choice will be a personal one.
You may find that one technique works well at some times and a different one may be employed at other times.
*plant your feet whether standing or sitting and take three, deep breaths. Be mindful of breathing as far down into your belly as possible.
*any act of mindfulness that brings attention into your body and feet works!
Pausing and taking a few moments to shift your attention to a grounding technique that serves you will energize you for your next set of tasks. We require this attention to our own, energetic 'service' to run and enjoy our lives to the fullest!


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Hey Leeds, how about £1 Brazilian Burgers at Cabana?
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Rick Schwartz wrote to me today to tell me he sold an NNN.com domain name for an amount which will land him as the 2nd highest reported sale of 2015 per DnJournal.
The transaction is still in Escrow, so the Domain King will not reveal what the domain is or what the purchase price was until the escrow transaction is closed.
Rick, like RightoftheDot.com/4.CN auction is using 4.Cn escrow's service to handle the transaction.
The currently 2nd highest sale of the year is my domain of 345.com which sold for $800,000 in January.
Rick is saying he will windup in the 2nd spot for 2015 top reported domain sales, meaning his NNN.com sold for more than $800K but less that 8.8 Million.
You can see all of Rick's NNN.com domain names as they are listed on 399.com with prices.
I expect to be able to announce the domain and the price once Escrow clears.
For the big boys we have a NN.com domain for sale, 73.com which has a bid around $2.4 million dollars.
There are also 66 LLL.com's in the auction which are the next hottest things to NN.com, LL.com and NNN.com on the planet.
The online auction from DOMAINfest.asia has over $6 Million dollars in bids.
The auction will start to close over a staggered period of 4 hours starting at 8pm Hong Kong time on September 10th which is 8am EST on September 11th.
Hello, was 360.com the highest sale at about $17 million?
360.com holds the top spot and #2 spot for the highest NNN.com sales ever.
Keep in mind about 6 years ago Vodafone paid mid 7 figs for the name.
About 10 years ago 360.com was sold by Sedo for $100k which at the time was the highest price for NNN ever.
In addition to Ricks sale.
There was another sale of NNN last month for a cool $1m.
Rick is the best domain investor, bar none.
Based on the prices listed on 399.com, it is either 899.com, 997.com, 750.com or 399.com itself.
oh how i wish i was around in the early days to get some really good domains to hold on to.
Michael Berkens, all high bids on your auctions at 4.cn have weird datetime information. They don't look trustworthy. Mind to explain?
Otherwise all 500 auction would close at the same exact time which would be havoc.
Currently the highest bid for name 73.com is ¥15,002,000.00 RMB ($2,366,246.06 USD), placed on 2015-Apr-08 12:37:38 EST (GMT-04:00).
I can't wait to know the purchase price. Rick is a string puller in the domain world.
The king does it again!!
Rick is an amazing investor and equally amazing negotiator. Congratulations Rick!
The main advantage Rick has is he is patient and obviously doesn't need the money so he can hold a name for many years or even decades and reject 100s of good offers before the big one comes. How many of us can possibly do that!
Totally agree… but not only….
I am wondering who will be the buyer of .888 in the next rounds.
under the current rules you not apply for a gTLD with numbers.
It is being discussed, behind closed doors, for every area-code in the U.S. to have its own gTLD…one company would own them all.
Hahaha, Fantastic way to marketing your NNN domains or better .com in general.
Now Chinese buyers are buying NN and NNN gtlds and no much interest in .com anymore.
So, your NNN are hard to sell ? find yourself another way to marketing.


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US Special Ops Command: Electronic Weapons Are 'Disabling' US Aircraft in Syria
Jim W. Dean, Managing Editor
…from Sputnik News, Moscow
Who knows who has the best stuff, if that is being saved for the big day?
[ Editor's Note: This is quite an open admission by the US that Russian electronic warfare capability is causing it a lot of problems. But that might have something to do with the US support of the proxy terror wars, and the attacks on Syrian and Russian military assets.
What the Russians are doing is exactly what the US is trying to do. You can bet your booties the Russians are making a huge investment in EW, as it is so cost effective for both defense and offense.
It will be the determinate factor on future major battlefields, particularly in the air as one's offensive and defensive positions can be made obsolete with a few lines of code. For example, high tech planes can become hugely expensive flying junk heaps if they cannot defeat incoming missiles.
The sparring games going on are done to find out all you can about an adversary's capabilities so you can get a headstart on counter measures. I suspect the US releasing this "concern" has to do with pumping the Russian military bogey-man hype, without mentioning that with its significantly fewer number of high tech weapons, it cannot wage an attrition conflict with the West. This is why it has concentrated so much on defense, its only feasible option.
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The commander of US Special Operations complained during a recent speech in Florida that electronic weapons are "disabling" US aircraft flying in Syrian airspace.
"Right now in Syria we are operating in the most aggressive [electronic warfare] environment on the planet from our adversaries," General Raymond Thomas said during a speaking engagement at the US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation on Tuesday.
"They are testing us everyday, knocking our communications down, disabling our EC-130s, etc." the general said, referring to the US Air Force's Compass Call electronic attack aircraft, Breaking Defense reported.
Some reporters attending the event heard the general say AC-130. These gunships also used in US special ops and have at least one electronic warfare officer on their flight crew lists, according to a US Air Force fact sheet.
It's not clear who exactly Thomas meant when he said "enemies," but Russia is known to have developed advanced EW capabilities, according to EW specialist Lauri Buckhout, a retired US Army colonel.
"The Russians have redone and reengineered their entire EW fleet in the last 20 years… The Russians put in millions on upgrades after Georgia," the veteran told Breaking Defense, in reference to the 2008 conflict in the South Ossetia and Abkhazia regions, which Georgia claims as part of its territory but whose self-determination Russia supports.
"They've ended up with killer capabilities, jamming in a multitude of frequencies for hundreds of kilometers," Buckhout said, clarifying that there are other vulnerabilities in US systems that Russian electronic weapons could target, too.
Instead of jamming an EC-130 in a head-to-head fashion, there are easier ways to degrade US capabilities, according to Buckhout. The specialist explained,
"The problem the EC-130s have is that, while they are jamming, the crews aren't doing much else… they could have gone after the [position, navigation and timing equipment] or the comms." Russian forces "know all of our vulnerabilities," the retired US colonel added.
Strategic analysts in the United States observe that one of the most remarkable aspects of Russia's EW capability is how widely integrated it is across domains.
"We can't just strip out the EW capability and look at it separately (from) cyber, SIGINT (signals intelligence), air defense," Roger McDermott, a fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, said at an event in February.
"It's found throughout every arm of service, every branch of service, it's almost impossible to avoid EW capability, which very much contrasts with western militaries," he said.
"Russia has integrated electronic warfare and offensive and defense electromagnetic spectrum capabilities into its operations and strategies, in a way not seen from NATO forces in Europe," USNI News quoted McDermott as saying January 30.
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wjabbe May 15, 2018 at 8:01 pm
If we can't believe any of the 9/11/01 lies from Bush, Cheney and the four star generals, we can't believe any of this propaganda either. Why would they make such an admission? Have you ever heard any of them admit the four star generals did not lift a finger to "defend" the country on 9/11/01, their most basic responsibility? Why have not Bush and Cheney offered to come forward and appear voluntarily before a grand jury under oath and tell everything they know? These are liars and traitors to America including every four star general with the least knowledge of this massive con on America by Israel and these despicable expletive deleted cowards and traitors who are enjoying the good life on lavish pensions some even with Secret Service Protection! This country has reached rock bottom.
David Odell May 15, 2018 at 11:51 am
Lee Camp breaks down missing 6.5 trillion last year in DOD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9EigEEAQeM
YT "Largest Heist EVER In Human History – Literally"
One Trillion is, 1,000,000,000,000. 40 thousand dollars per year for 25 million years.
Tyndale May 15, 2018 at 10:10 am
This War of Terror will not end until:
1) The BIS and Rothschild's Central Banks worldwide are ended. No more Endless Fiat for Endless Wars.
2) Israel is removed from the map. Rothschild's Lucifarian fiefdom.
3) The Rothchild bloodline is Ended completely.
Tyndale May 15, 2018 at 7:34 pm
I think Israel will fall first off the list, but what do others think?
David Odell May 15, 2018 at 9:16 am
The arrogant and boisterous usually focuses on offense, while the humble and strong focus on defense.
US military contracts are firstly lucrative paydays, and a distantly second, wisely spent. We could cut our budget by 80% and still maintain a superb defense, if we could but apply basic mathematics. Wisdom will not get close to the feeding trough in our system.
Harry Haller May 15, 2018 at 7:53 am
In horseracing it's called handicapping. If you want to equalize opponents in a global war you even things up.Only the house wins when you bet on both sides.
Password1 May 14, 2018 at 10:18 pm
Yes, the US military are testing and torturing Americans who whistle-blow or stand up to corporate corruption. This is a common practice. It happened in Cuba (which included Gangstalking). And it happens in many countries, but here in the US it's wide spread. I think the deep state is behind this (AKA Israel).
mijj May 14, 2018 at 9:24 pm
joetv is correct. If only the US didn't hamstring its military with such a paltry budget.
Nexus789 May 15, 2018 at 3:32 am
Much of it wasted on supporting hundreds of static bases, low intensity conflicts that can't be won, a massive corrupt pentagram bureaucracy, many boondoggle projects – JSF lemon, Zumwalt floating apartment block, Ford carrier, etc. Also a Rouble or Yuan spent in those countries probably goes further in terms of purchasing power.
joetv May 14, 2018 at 9:16 pm
sounds like the good officer is talking to congress setting them up for a budget increase. preferably black.
Andrew_Bukanov(Russia) May 15, 2018 at 5:58 am
Indeed. As always 🙂
Andrew_Bukanov(Russia) May 15, 2018 at 10:05 am
Well, if the USA police in the streets are equiped with automatic riffles and look like GI, it means that the government has problems with its people…


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Off-World Cement Tested for the First Time
November 07, 2019 • Aggregate • Crystallization • CurrentEvents • Featured • Mars
If the current Administration of the United States has their way, humans will return to the surface of the Moon far sooner than many had expected. But even if NASA can't meet the aggressive timeline they've been given by the White House, it seems inevitable that there will be fresh boot prints on the lunar surface within the coming decades. Between commercial operators and international competition, we're seeing the dawn of a New Space Race, with the ultimate goal being the long-term habitation of our nearest celestial neighbor.
An Apollo astronaut covered in lunar dust
But even with modern technology, it won't be easy, and it certainly won't be cheap. While commercial companies such as SpaceX have significantly reduced the cost of delivering payloads to the Moon, we'll still need every advantage to ensure the economical viability of a lunar outpost. One approach is in situ resource utilization, where instead of transporting everything from Earth, locally sourced materials are used wherever possible. This technique would not only be useful on the Moon, but many believe it will be absolutely necessary if we're to have any chance of sending a human mission to Mars.
One of the most interesting applications of this concept is the creation of a building material from the lunar regolith. Roughly analogous to soil here on Earth, regolith is a powdery substance made up of grains of rock and micrometeoroid fragments, and contains silicon, calcium, and iron. Mixed with water, or in some proposals sulfur, it's believed the resulting concrete-like material could be used in much the same way it is here on Earth. Building dwellings in-place with this "lunarcrete" would be faster, cheaper, and easier than building a comparable structure on Earth and transporting it to the lunar surface.
Now, thanks to recent research performed aboard the International Space Station, we have a much better idea of what to expect when those first batches of locally-sourced concrete are mixed up on the Moon or Mars. Of course, like most things related to spaceflight, the reality has proved to be a bit more complex than expected.
The Gravity of the Situation
That you could mix lunar regolith up into a substance that would harden like concrete was never really in question. Chemically it all checks out, and there were even some very promising experiments done with samples returned from the Apollo missions. But while scientists could expose the resulting mixture to a vacuum easily enough, there was no way to study how it would cure in low-gravity environments.
Techshot's MVP Centrifuge
Short of going to the Moon or Mars and trying it in field, the only way to see how extraterrestrial concrete would behave on these worlds is by simulating their gravity in space. Here on the surface of the Earth, there's no way to lower the force of gravity, but in space you have the luxury of starting from what's effectively zero. Aboard an orbiting spacecraft, a sample can be placed inside of a centrifuge and spun up to simulate the roughly 17% of Earth's gravity it would be subjected to on the Moon, or 38% in the case of Mars.
Which is exactly what astronauts aboard the ISS did during the Microgravity Investigation of Cement Solidification (MICS) experiment. Pouches filled with a hydrated cement mixture were placed in the Multi-use Variable-g Platform (MPV), a commercially owned and operated centrifuge that can be run from 0.1 to 2G. Samples were spun up to expose them to artificial gravity equal to what they would experience on the surface of the Moon and Mars, while control samples were left to cure in the normal microgravity environment aboard the ISS.
The Science of Concrete
The impact of varying gravitational strength on curing concrete might not be immediately obvious. Here on Earth the process seems so simple: just mix it up with some water, let it sit out, and in 24 hours or so you have a solid block. To understand the situation better, we first need to look at what concrete actually is, and what's happening at the microscopic level as it cures.
Astronauts load MICS samples into the MVP
Firstly, while there's a tendency to use the terms interchangeably in casual conversation, concrete and cement are not the same thing. Concrete is actually the end result of mixing an aggregate (sand, gravel, etc) with cement, which acts as a binder to hold it all together. Put another way, you can have cement without concrete, but you can't have concrete without cement. Research performed during the MICS experiment has therefore focused on cement, as that's the first step towards producing concrete strong enough to actually build a structure.
While curing, two different processes are occurring inside the concrete. The aggregate, being heavier than the cement, has a tendency to slowly sink towards the bottom. At the same time, the cement is crystalizing which "glues" the aggregate in place. Striking a balance between aggregate sedimentation and cement crystallization is key to producing a strong final product, but as both processes are heavily dependent on gravity, the strength of concrete cured in low or zero G has always been a topic of debate.
Early Results
Researchers from Pennsylvania State University and NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center are still analyzing the returned cement samples, but so far they've already made some very interesting observations. Further experiments will almost certainly be required before any kind of definitive statement can be made, but clearly we've got a lot to learn before the first concrete structures can be poured on the surface of the Moon.
Concrete cured in space (top) versus on Earth.
The good news is that lower gravity leads to reduced sedimentation. Without Earth's gravity to pull the heavier material down to the bottom of the mixture, the cured concrete should be of a more uniform density and therefore stronger. It also means that the ratio of aggregate to cement can potentially be increased, resulting in a denser concrete than would normally be possible on Earth.
Unfortunately, the samples also show that the crystalline structure of the space-cured cement is more porous than its terrestrial counterpart. The hardened cement contains voids which are likely due to the fact that air bubbles in the mixture are less likely to rise to the surface under reduced gravity. Future experiments will likely focus on ways to reduce the number of air bubbles that remain in the cement as it cures, potentially via mechanical vibration or exposure to a low-level vacuum. While it might seem that exposing the cement to the total vacuum of space would solve the issue, previous experiments have shown that this causes the water in the mixture to sublimate; with the water drawn out, the curing process stalls and the cement never hardens.
Put simply, the structure of space concrete is nearly the opposite of traditional concrete. On Earth, gravity causes aggregates to sink to the bottom while air bubbles rise to the top. But in reduced gravity, there's a tendency for everything to stay in suspension. When cured, this results in a material that's more uniform but considerably less dense than it is on Earth. How this will affect the final strength of the concrete and its usability as a building material off-world is yet to be seen. Until then, affordable housing will remain one of the many challenges of living on the Moon.
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I had the privilege of 'finding' Pete Tackett, and 'bringing' him to Middle Tennessee. When we were searching for a Pastor to Students at FBC Columbia, I discovered Brother Pete in East Tennessee, and began praying with him about joining our pastoral staff. It was one of the best 'finds' I ever made! He was a very effective Pastor to Students.
Through the years I was impressed by his visionary ideas and strategic plans to reach and disciple teenagers – and yet I was always blessed by his congenial and cooperative spirit in working with me and the other pastors on staff and the various laypeople as well.
After I retired from First Baptist, I was delighted that the church called Brother Pete to be Senior Pastor. He built respectfully on the foundation that had been laid, while at the same time stretching the church's vision to reach more people locally and globally. He and Lori personally modeled grace-filled, prayer-powered living, and the church family quickly caught their examples.
Brother Pete's years as senior pastor at FBC Columbia were some of the most spiritual, dynamic, effective years in the church's history. New ministries, new buildings, new levels of mission giving (and going), and new ways of sharing the old Gospel story marked his pastoral leadership.
I recommend Brother Pete Tackett with enthusiasm and without reservation to any church or ministry seeking a true man of God. I see him and Lori and their children as Bible-centered, mission-minded, people-loving, prayer-focused, Spirit-led followers of Jesus Christ who will bless and inspire others wherever they serve.
–Mike Dawson, Pastor Emeritus/Counsel to the Pastors, First Baptist Church, Columbia, Tenn.


My "rays" playground. I wanted to create random scene generator/renderer with spheres and light source. The result was quite satisfying. Even render artefacts (stars on sphere surface) look interesting.
Generative illustration. Programmed in Processing.


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In 1873, Japanese officials considered switching the national language to English
Image: Library of Congress/Public Domain Review
Nikhil Sonnad
Japanese speakers use a lot of English words. There is baa, meaning "bar," hoteru for "hotel," and hundreds of others. Using English can give whatever a Japanese person is saying a touch of sutairu, or "style"—and doing so has been fashionable since well before the spread of internet and Hollywood movies.
Back in 1887, the Japanese artist Kamekichi Tsunajima produced a series of woodcuts titled "Fashionable melange of English words." Most of the words are not obviously "fashionable" to the contemporary reader. Monkey? School? Cat? Penmanship? There are also a number of errors, like "gaot" instead of "goat" and "refreshiug" instead of "refreshing." The point, though, is not that these will teach anybody English. It's that they reflect a growing interest in English in 19th-century Japan.
The woodcuts were produced not long after the US navy showed up in Japan in 1853 to force a trading relationship on the island, putting it on course to modernize in the mold of Western countries. This was the Meiji Restoration, an imperial rule that was determined to adopt any ideas or technologies from the West that would help Japan compete. And one such technology was the English language.
During the Meiji period, influential Japanese scholars argued that the country should ditch its millennia-old language in favor of English. It had already become the language of trade and science, and was seen to be the language of modernity. The biggest advocate of this radical idea was Mori Arinori, Japan's first ambassador to the US and education minister during Meiji rule.
Mori made his case in the introduction to a book published in 1873:
The commercial power of the English-speaking race which now rules the world drives our people into some knowledge of their commercial ways and habits. The absolute necessity of mastering the English language is thus forced upon us. It is a requisite of the maintenance of our independence in the community of nations. Under the circumstances, our meagre [sic] language, which can never be of any use outside of our islands, is doomed to yield to the domination of the English tongue, especially when the power of steam and electricity shall have pervaded the land.
His suggestion never got enough support to turn Japan into a kind of early Singapore, where the government willed citizens into becoming fluent English speakers, even though it was not widely spoken at home. But it is part of the long-running influence of English on Japanese, as the woodcuts show.
Here is another set of English words becoming fashionable at the time, like "ChecKer boarP," "DISH," and "tooth brush."


Yybril was the one whose expression was the most composed out of the ones who leveled up. After all, she was unable to see the raise in her own levels. While, in Oyado's case, her power in the technical department was stronger than her level's.
And there's even a need to fight those troublesome battle dolls. It's more convenient to simply blast them all apart in one go. I'm really too resourceful.
I pointed towards the direction where Bai Yueguang was.
The Princess and her attendant Arianha who were still unconscious, were lying over there.
I walked over to Arianha with quick steps, and then, poked her a bit.
She was silent for a long time, without reacting even for a moment. I pondered for a moment, and then, took out a dagger.
She suddenly leapt up from the ground, a dagger was still in her hands.
Arianha smiled, and then, took out a mask and wore it.
In an instant, Arianha's body flashed, and the Prince I met last night appeared in front of us.
I walked over to the fake Prince, and said with a smile.
I replied with a smile, and then, looked towards Dale.
Of course, and there's the titles.
This was also a key factor. Although the mask disguised the titles, none of the titles were the same as the ones Dale told me.
Something like changing all of one's own titles in just half a year, even I can't do it, let alone a Prince who can't even see his own titles.
However, naturally, I can't tell her about titles. Hence, I can only say her behaviour was off.
Arianha laughed, and then, took the mask down.
Looking at Arianha's expression, I pointed to the faraway castle which was still in huge cloud of dust.
Ms. Mari fiddled with the palm-sized terminal in her hands and said.
This woman has actually already pioneered a handphone? Hey, hey, hey. This is an era-leaping improvement, you know!
Hearing Ms. Mari's reply, I could only sigh.
Dale's voice came out from the airship's broadcast.
Is that guy trying to use a gamma ray cannon or GENESIS?
Six small-scaled flying machines flew out from the top of the airship at the same time, enveloping us and the citizens who escaped.
And in the next second, an attack warning came from the direction of the castle!
Yybril, Ms. Mari and I cast defensive magic spells at the same time, and three types of defensive magic spells instantly formed outside the airship.
However, in an instant, our defensive magic spells were bombarded into fragments by a ray of black light! The ray of black light penetrated our spells, and instantly bombarded on the airship's defensive barrier. Crack lines began to spread from the place it struck!
Just when I asked that, my ring flashed, and a ball suddenly ran out by itself!
Only to see that round ball rolling 'gurururu' a couple of rounds on the ground, before leaping several times up onto Purewhite's body.
Oyado, who was at the side, said very unhappily.
What appeared… was the toad that I brought out from the dungeon within the ancient ruins back then. Currently, it was sitting on Purewhite's shoulder with a mystical aura surrounding it.
Well… If you're coming out, that's fine. But why did you take Oyado's spot? Are you courting death?
However, I don't have the time to complicate things with it either.
This guy sure is saying this very casually, huh?
After it said that, the target's attack ended, and the ray of black light was retracted.
All of us looked terrifyingly at each other, and then, all of us said in unison.
Well, I didn't expect a dead prince.
It's kind of irritating how Fir is able to pick up on the subtlest of clues. I don't really like how much of a Garry Stu the author is turning him into.
It's not like he was a tame and regular character to begin with, but he's a bit too good. Too clever.
The lighthouse doesn't have a nearly impregnable barrier that opens up only a minute before it fire, right?
Yeah, GENESIS, that sounds familiar. And having to recharge before shooting huh.
Aww.. midboss got away again..