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Brightest planets of the night sky put on season-long spectacle this winter
Scott Sutherland
Meteorologist/Science Writer
Monday, November 29th 2021, 6:35 pm - In addition to hosting one of the best meteor showers of the year, this winter we'll see gatherings of the brightest planets in the night sky.
With the long nights and still air, Winter is an excellent time to stargaze. It's the planets that we need to keep our eyes on this winter, though, as they form up into spectacular alignments and conjunctions throughout the season.
Here's what to look for in the night sky for Winter 2021-2022.
Dec 21 - Winter Solstice
Dec 21 - Jupiter, Saturn, Venus line up in the SW sky after sunset
Dec 22 - Peak of the Ursids (minor meteor shower)
Dec 31 - Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury, & Venus in SW sky after sunset
Jan 2 - Perigee New Moon (closest of 2022)
Jan 3 - Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, Mercury & Moon in SW sky just after sunset
Jan 3-4 - Peak of the Quadrantids (best winter meteor shower)
Jan 3-4 - Earth at Perihelion (closest to the Sun for 2022)
Jan 4-5 - Crescent Moon near Jupiter & Saturn in SW sky after sunset
Jan 10 - Mercury highest in the evening sky
Jan 17 - Full Wolf Moon
Jan 29 - Venus, Mars & thin crescent Moon in SE sky before sunrise
February - Venus, Mars & Mercury form a triangle in the SE sky before sunrise
Feb 9 - Venus reaches its greatest brightness
Feb 16 - Full Snow Moon
Feb 27 - Saturn joins Venus, Mars, Mercury & Moon in the SE sky just before sunrise
March - Saturn, Venus & Mars form a triangle in the SE sky before sunrise
Mar 17-18 - Full Worm Moon
Mar 20 - Spring Equinox
On December 21, at 10:53 a.m. EST, the Sun will reach its southernmost point in the skies of Earth. In the northern hemisphere, this will mean the Sun will reach its lowest point in our sky, marking the first day of Winter. In the southern hemisphere, it will reach its highest point, signalling the start of Summer.
This will be the shortest day of the year and thus the longest night. How much daylight and nighttime you see depends on how far north or south you live. Kingsville, Ont (the southernmost community in Canada) will see 9 hours, 06 minutes and 43 seconds of sunlight on December 21. Meanwhile, Iqaluit, NU, will have less than half that, with only 4 hours, 20 minutes and 9 seconds of daylight. Farther north, the Sun will have already set for last time this year and will only rise again in early 2022.
Starting off this season, the Ursid meteor shower will peak on the night of December 21-22. Typically a fairly weak shower, the Ursids usually produce around 10 meteors per hour. With its source — comet 8P/Tuttle — having rounded the Sun in late August of this year, though, it could produce about 25-30 meteors per hour on the night of the peak.
The Ursid meteor shower is named due to its radiant being positioned close to the constellation Ursa Minor, aka The Little Dipper. Credit: Stellarium/Scott Sutherland
However, this shower is peaking just three nights after the Full Moon. Thus, the competing light of the Gibbous Moon in the sky will wash out the dimmer meteors, reducing the number we will see.
We won't have long to wait for a better opportunity, though. The best of the winter meteor showers (and one of the three best meteor showers of the year) occurs in the nights following New Years' — the Quadrantids.
The radiant of the Quadrantids, in the NE sky, on the night of January 3-4, 2022. Credit: Stellarium/Scott Sutherland
Quadrantid meteors originate from an object known as 2003 EH1, which may be an 'extinct comet' — a comet that has lost all of its ice, leaving behind an asteroid that flies along the original orbit. That makes it one of only two or three meteor showers to originate from a rocky body! During this shower, the meteors are caused by tiny bits of debris from this asteroid plunging into the upper atmosphere. There, they compress the air in their path, heating that air until it glows.
According to the International Meteor Organization, this year's Quadrantids peak will occur on the night of January 3. This is perfect timing for the meteor shower, as it is only one night after the New Moon. Thus, there will be very little competition in the sky, allowing viewers to see more meteors.
The exact number of meteors we see from the Quadrantids can vary, year to year. Typically, though, it produces around 120 per hour or up to two per minute. The IMO says that there's even the chance of this particular shower having two peaks, a smaller one followed by the main one.
Keep reading for our guide to stargazing and meteor shower watching, below.
EARTH AT PERIHELION
This event isn't so much something to see, as it is something to simply experience.
Each year in early January, Earth reaches a point in its elliptical orbit known as perihelion — the planet's closest distance to the Sun for the entire year.
Earth's orbit around the Sun, noting the Solstices, Equinoxes and the timing of perihelion and aphelion. The image is not to scale, and the ellipse of Earth's orbit has been exaggerated. Credit: NASA/Scott Sutherland
If you want to mark the event, even if it's just to pause for a short break, it occurs at exactly 6:55 a.m. UTC on January 4, 2022. That's:
3:25 a.m. January 4 NST
2:55 a.m. January 4 AST
1:55 a.m. January 4 EST
12:55 a.m. January 4 CST
11:55 p.m. January 3 MST
10:55 p.m. January 3 PST
At that exact moment, Earth will be 147,500,475 kilometres away from the Sun. That's close to 12,000 km closer than perihelion 2021, and it's the closest we'll come to the Sun until January 2038.
Will you feel anything when this occurs? Not specifically from the astronomical event, but it will still be pretty cool to mark the moment when it happens!
THE PLANETS AND THE MOON
The brightest planets in our night sky will spend much of the upcoming season grouped together for us.
Right off the top of the season, on the night of December 21, look for Jupiter, Saturn, and Venus to be lined up in the southwest sky in the hours after sunset.
Jupiter, Saturn, and Venus to the SW after sunset on December 21. Credit: Stellarium
We'll continue to see this alignment for the remainder of December. Then, towards the end of the month, the trio will be joined by Mercury.
Watch for the closest planet to the Sun to become visible above the southwestern horizon around December 28, just after sunset. December 31 will probably be the best night to see it.
It will be a bit of a challenge to see it all. Still, if you look very closely to the southwest right after sunset in early January, you may see these four celestial objects joined by a very thin Crescent Moon.
On the 4th and 5th of January, watch for that thin Crescent Moon to pass by Saturn and then Jupiter.
The Moon, Saturn and Jupiter, on the nights of January 4 and January 5, 2022. Credit: Stellarium/Scott Sutherland
Then, towards the end of January, keep a lookout for Venus and Mars to team up in the predawn sky. The pair will be joined by the Moon on January 29 and January 30.
Starting in early February, Mercury will form a triangle with Venus and Mars. The 9th to the 12th are likely the best nights to see this. This is when the three planets are closest together and farthest from the horizon before the Sun rises.
Mercury, Venus, and Mars above the southeastern horizon on the mornings of February 9 and 12, 2022. Credit: Stellarium/Scott Sutherland
These three will remain visible in the hours just before sunrise for the rest of the month. However, Venus and Mars will pull farther away from Mercury during that time.
In the final days of February, watch for Saturn to pop up above the horizon near Mercury, and the Crescent Moon will join the group as well.
Mercury will be lost to the brightening dawn in the days after, but Saturn will replace it in the triangle with Venus and Mars for the rest of the season.
This trio will be best seen from the 12th to the 15th when they are closest together.
Venus, Mars, and Saturn in the predawn sky on March 12 and March 15, 2022. Credit: Stellarium/Scott Sutherland
While the Crescent Moon joins these planetary conjunctions and alignments from time to time, the Full Moons of Winter are on their own for the season. We'll see the first Full Moon of 2022, the Wolf Moon, on January 17, the Full Snow Moon will cross the sky on the night of February 16, and the Full Worm Moon occurs on the night of March 17-18.
Even though we won't see it happen, the closest New Moon of the new year occurs during the day on the 2nd of January. So closely timed with Earth's closest pass around the Sun, this will likely produce some exceptionally high tides.
SPRING EQUINOX
At precisely 11:27 a.m. EDT on March 20, the Sun will appear to cross Earth's celestial equator, ushering in Spring in the northern hemisphere. In the southern hemisphere, it denotes the start of Fall.
TIPS FOR STARGAZING AND METEOR SHOWERS
Given how polluted our night skies are with urban light, it is no longer a simple matter to step outside and gaze up at the stars. It's even more difficult to watch an event such as a meteor shower. Follow the tips below, though, and you won't miss out on these amazing events.
There are three best practices for observing the night sky:
Check the weather,
Get away from light pollution, and
Clear skies are essential. Even a few hours of cloudy skies can ruin your chances of watching an event such as a meteor shower. So, be sure to check The Weather Network on TV, on our website, or from our app, and look for my articles on our Space News page, just to be sure that you have the most up-to-date sky forecast.
Next, you need to get away from city light pollution. If you look up into the sky from home, what do you see? The Moon, a planet or two, perhaps a few bright stars such as Vega, Betelgeuse and Procyon, as well as some passing airliners? If so, there's too much light pollution in your area to get the most out of a meteor shower. You might catch an exceptionally bright fireball if one happens to fly past overhead, but that's likely all you'll see. So, to get the most out of your stargazing and meteor watching, get out of the city. The farther away you can get, the better.
Watch: What light pollution is doing to city views of the Milky Way
For most regions of Canada, getting out from under light pollution is simply a matter of driving outside of your city, town or village until a multitude of stars is visible above your head.
In some areas, especially in southern Ontario and along the St. Lawrence River, the concentration of light pollution is too high. Getting far enough outside of one city to escape its light pollution tends to put you under the light pollution dome of the next city over. The best options for getting away from light depend on your location. In southwestern Ontario and the Niagara Peninsula, the shores of Lake Erie can offer some excellent views. In the GTA and farther east, drive north and seek out the various Ontario provincial parks or Quebec provincial parks. Even if you're confined to the parking lot after hours, these are usually excellent locations from which to watch (and you don't run the risk of trespassing on someone's property).
If you can't get away, the suburbs can offer at least a slightly better view of the night sky. Here, the key is to limit the amount of direct light in your field of view. Dark backyards, sheltered from street lights by surrounding houses and trees, are your best haven. The video above provides a good example of viewing based on the concentration of light pollution in the sky. Also, check for dark sky preserves in your area.
When viewing a meteor shower, be mindful of the phase of the Moon. Meteor showers are typically at their best when viewed during the New Moon or Crescent Moon. However, a Gibbous or Full Moon can be bright enough to wash out all but the brightest meteors. Since we can't get away from the Moon, the best option is just to time your outing right, so the Moon has already set or is low in the sky. Also, you can angle your field of view to keep the Moon out of your direct line of sight. This will reduce its impact on your night vision and allow you to spot more meteors.
Once you've verified you have clear skies and you've limited your exposure to light pollution, this is where being patient comes in.
For best viewing, your eyes need some time to adapt to the dark. Give yourself at least 20 minutes, but 30-45 minutes is best for your eyes to adjust from being exposed to bright light.
Warning: This is possibly the one thing that causes the most disappointment when it comes to watching a meteor shower. Stepping out into the backyard from a brightly lit home and looking up for five minutes, you might be lucky enough to catch a rare bright fireball meteor. However, it's far more likely that you won't see anything at all. However, waiting for at least twenty minutes and avoiding sources of light during that time — streetlights, car headlights and interior lights, and smartphone and tablet screens — dramatically improves your chances of avoiding disappointment.
Sometimes, avoiding your smartphone or tablet isn't an option. In this case, set the display to reduce the amount of blue light it gives off and reduce the screen's brightness. That way, it will have less of an impact on your night vision.
You can certainly gaze into the starry sky while you are letting your eyes adjust. You may even see a few of the brighter meteors as your eyes become accustomed to the dark.
Once you're all set, just look straight up and enjoy the view!
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Pollen cones ellipsoid-cylindric, 10-20mm, red-brown or yellow, per Flora of North America.
Pollen cones about 1/8" long, terminal, numerous, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide.
Staminate catkins elongate and drooping, pistillate cylindrical and upright, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide.
Male flowers in hanging catkins, female flowers inconspicuous, per Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont.
Staminate flowers in pendulous catkins near base of current year's twig, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide.
Staminate flowers in clustered, drooping catkins, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
Staminate flowers in clustered drooping catkins, each flower with 3-12 stamens, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
Flowers, in pendulous racemes, appear before leaf emergence in Feb-March, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide.
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Male flowers in catkins similar to those of Morus, per Trees of the Southeastern United States.
Flowers in stalked, axillary, pendulous catkins, per Manual of Woody Landscape Plants.
Staminate flowers loosely arranged in spikes, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide.
The flower's many stamens and pistils are spirally arranged, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide.
Flowers 7-8" across on stout hairy stalks, very fragrant, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide.
Perianth segments 6, each 3-5mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
Sweetgum trees don't begin to flower until at least 20 years old, per Teaching the Trees by Joan Maloof.
Four yellow, thread-like, twisted petals about 1" long, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide.
Pistillate heads rusty to dark red, staminate heads yellowish-green, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide.
Each flower 1/3" wide, with an odor quite offensive , per Manual of Woody Landscape Plants.
Flowers appear before the leaves, borne in showy racemes near twig ends, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide.
Flowers develop from 1-2 buds at the side of axillary vegetative buds, per Trees of the Southeastern United States.
Flowers greenish-yellow, 1/4" long, clustered in compact racemes, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide.
Fragrant white flowers appear after leaves & dangle in racemes 4-6" long, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide.
Petals densely pubescent near the base. (Staminate flowers have 10 stamens.), per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
Flowers 3/4", fragrant, in clusters from nodes or leaf axils on new growth, per Invasive Plants, Guide to Identification, Impacts and Control.
Flowers similar to Winged Sumac except the panicles are usually larger, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide.
Female flowers have ovaries and sterile stamens.
Flowers in axillary clusters on branches of the previous year, per Weakley's Flora.
Perianth usually red, 1-3mm long. Anthers 1.5-2mm long, filaments erect, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
Staminate flowers borne in clusters at the ends of stalks, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide.
Flowers borne in a flat 1-2.5" cluster, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
Flowers inconspicuous, axillary, urceolate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
Anthers just within the mouth of corolla tube, style slightly exserted, per Weakley's Flora.
Many trees have only male flowers and never produce fruits, per Trees of the Southeastern United States.
Flowers [male pictured] individually inconspicuous but in prominent clusters, per Trees of the Southeastern United States.
Loosely branching conical clusters of flowers, per Nonnative Invasive Plants of Southern Forests.
Stamens extend from the four-lobed corolla, per Nonnative Invasive Plants of Southern Forests.
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David Briggs is one of the world's finest organists, but has recently been making his name with transcriptions of Mahler and Elgar Symphonies. Oliver Condy talks to him about the challenges of recreating the sound of an orchestra on a pipe organ.
As an organist, where has your love of the big Romantic orchestral masterpieces come from?
Music from the 19th and 20th century has been my main passion since I was a teenager. In 1981, I lead the violas in the National Youth Orchestra – it was a very formative and wonderful experience learning these these great pieces from the inside out: Mahler 5, Stravinsky's Firebird, Ravel's Daphnis; and we had some incredible conductors like Kirill Kondrashin, Simon Rattle, Charles Dutoit and Charles Groves. There was a time just when I was leaving school when I thought of maybe becoming an orchestral player.
But then the organ took over, presumably… You were organ scholar of King's College, Cambridge – did you do transcriptions while you were there?
Not so much – I think the first piece piece I first transcribed was the finale of the Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony, from the big C major chord of the final movement onwards – I had an email from somebody the other day who said he actually preferred it without the orchestra!
And then you moved on to Mahler?
Have you made any changes to your Mahler Symphony No. 5 transcription since then?
Just some of the layout, particularly in the Scherzo, which is the hardest movement to play. I have made quite a few amendments to make it more compelling and to make it lie under the hands slightly easier. You do have to make some modifications and you do have to realise that one person can't play what 90 people can play. Some things have to be left to illusion. But, as the great French organist Pierre Cochereau used to say, what would life be worth if we didn't have illusions?
Does Mahler lend itself well to transcription?
I think I think he really does, yes. The Sixth is particularly good I think because actually it's possible to transcribe most of it. It's interesting looking at Mahler's sketches – it's actually not that complicated, in terms of the raw product. What makes Mahler so extraordinary is the way he orchestrated, and in transcription there are two things that are paramount: first of all not feeling that you absolutely have to play every single note, and the registration, the way you manipulate the stops is really crucial to a successful performance of a transcription. The whole performance depends very much on the way that you set up the instrument and reincarnate the piece. The intention is not to try and emulate the orchestra, but to make a really good organ piece.
How do you approach a transcription from the start? Do you make a basic piano reduction first or do you go straight to the organ?
Straight to the organ. I did Elgar Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 in the last three years and I'm just about to record those. In Elgar 1, the orchestral soundscape is wide, from top to bottom, so having the ability to include a pedal part makes it easier than playing it on the piano – you need three hands to play Sigfrid Karg-Elert's piano transcription!
People used to need organ transcriptions simply to hear the great masterpieces in their home towns, but now that everyone has access to orchestras, either locally or on the radio or TV, what's the purpose of an organ transcription?
I think it's to gain an understanding about the music and to see it in a new light. Mahler was making arrangements of other people's music all the time, reorchestrating Schumann and Beethoven. I just love the sound of great symphonic frescoes on a great Romantic organ.
So what's your next Mahler project?
Well, I've been commissioned to transcribe Mahler's Second Symphony which is going to be first performed next spring in St John the Divine in New York. The organ was restored three years ago – it's really a fantastic venue and I think the music will be very powerful in that environment. It's going take about a good three months to transcribe, but it's a piece that I've loved for 30 years. I'm really excited to replicate it on the organ.


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Bénévent-et-Charbillac – miejscowość i gmina we Francji, w regionie Prowansja-Alpy-Lazurowe Wybrzeże, w departamencie Alpy Wysokie.

Według danych na rok 1990 gminę zamieszkiwało 221 osób, a gęstość zaludnienia wynosiła 18 osób/km² (wśród 963 gmin regionu Prowansja-Alpy-W. Lazurowe Bénévent-et-Charbillac plasuje się na 605. miejscu pod względem liczby ludności, natomiast pod względem powierzchni na miejscu 640.).

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Whatever content you are engaging with, something read: a complete book or certain chapters or a section, an article or blog post, or something watched or listened to: a video or podcast etc, the framework below may aid your personal reflection and journaling.
Once you have engaged with the item, spend some focused time answering these five questions* – type it up, or write in a notebook or journal. You might like to share this later with your supervisor, mentor or spiritual director.
If you would like to revise your theological reflection skills first, there are some tips online here.
1. What challenged me in this book/chapter/article/video/talk?
List matters that make you reflect on yourself personally and on your ministry context – are there changes or initiatives that come to mind?
2. What could I do about this?
Reflect on what you could do to implement the initiatives or changes included in the list above.
3. What would be the outcome if I made these changes or started these initiatives?
4. Who would benefit from these changes or initiatives?
Identify the beneficiaries and how they would value the changes or initiatives.
5. Where is God in this?
Articulate your theological reflection as you have engaged with this book/chapter/article/video/talk.
Many people in church and mission leadership roles are committed to regular accountability relationships outside of their local ministry context, such as with a supervisor, mentor, spiritual director, or coach. Meeting at least every two months with this person is a common arrangement.
You might find your response to the five questions above will be useful as a basis for discussion and interaction with your supervisor etc.
* The first four of these reflection questions are modelled off the Arrow Leadership reflection guide.


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Cooper Battersby currently lives in LaFayette (USA). He received his diploma in computer programming at Okanagan College and worked as a lead technician at the organisation Video In.
Since 1994 he has collaborated as an artist and curator with Emily Vey Duke, producing works on paper, installations and sound pieces. Under the influence of Steve Reinke, with whom they studied at the University of Western Ontario, they began working mostly with video in 1997-'98.
° 1971 Penticton, British Columbia (Canada).


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Olympic Commonwealth Games 2022: Swimmer Isaac Cooper breaks silence, denies misusing 'banned substance'
Commonwealth Games 2022: Swimmer Isaac Cooper breaks silence, denies misusing 'banned substance'
Australian swimmer Isaac Cooper has broken his silence after being sent home from the Commonwealth Games team, saying the medication he misused was not "banned substances".
Earlier this week, Swimming Australia confirmed Cooper was scratched from the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham as a result of wellbeing challenges, "including the use of medication".
The 18-year-old, who won a bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics in the mixed 4x100m medley relay and was emerging as a future star, will travel back to Australia from the Dolphins' camp in Chartres, France.
In a lengthy Instagram post, Cooper, who was a good chance of a medal in the 50m and 100m backstroke in Birmingham, said the last few days "have been tough".
"I've had to undergo a lot of self-reflection and examination," he wrote.
"The decision made to send me home was based on my behaviour and mental health and was made in my best interest and that of the team competing at the Commonwealth Games.
"My misuse of medication was not banned substances. It was ultimately my wellbeing and mental health that resulted in me going home.
"It was difficult to accept in myself that I needed to address my mental health, but I believe that it is an ever present issue in all communities, including that of a professional athlete. I am grateful to Swimming Australia for helping to identify an issue and offering their support and resources to help me."
It is still unclear what specific medication Cooper used while on team camp.
Swimming Australia has denied any suggestion there has been a repeat of the infamous stilnox scandal that rocked the Australian team ahead of the 2012 Olympics in London.
In his Instagram post on Friday, Cooper said there are "two sides" of the story and he wished he could be in Birmingham to race alongside his teammates.
The teenager had been due to swim in four events — the 50m and 100m backstroke, 50m butterfly and 50m freestyle.
At the Tokyo Olympics last year he finished 12th in the 100m backstroke, and won a bronze medal as part of the mixed 4x100m medley relay.
"More than anything I wish I could be there, racing with my team and cheering them on," Cooper wrote.
"The team means so much to me and I have made friends for life, but the decision was not made in the interest of the next few weeks, rather the interest for the future of my swimming career."
"For the next few weeks I will be reflecting and resetting for the future. I will use this time of reflection to also examine the current issues. There are always two sides to a story and I shall continue to work positively and confidentially with swimming Australia.
"I would like to thank the many people who have reached out to me and my family and offered their help and assistance. It means more to me then you will ever know.
"My dad has always told me that Coopers are either up or getting up, but never down. I'm certainly pretty low, but this is the first step back up. I'll see you there."
Cooper also said he would be leaving his junior swim club Rackley, in Brisbane.
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Kitchenaid 600 vs 610 - What to pick?
Many people have proven that the Kitchenaid products are the best mixer in the market. They have created many kinds of recipes with the help of the kitchenaid products. With the great features of this mixer product, you will be able to make many kinds of food with different needs of mixer products. Because of this reason, the Kitchenaid products have the good reputations in the market. However, there are two types of the Kitchenaid products with the good reputations. In this article, we are going to talk about the Kitchenaid 600 vs 610. You will get the information about those products.
Firstly, we are going to discuss about the similarity of both products. Both of those products have the strong motor to do many heavy tasks for different kinds of recipes. They also have the same style of the speed. You can change the speed of the motor up to 10 different levels. If you do not pay attention to those products, you will not realize that the products are different. It is because of the similar design of those products. Both of the products offer the color choices with the great color combination. It is hard to make difference between Kitchenaid 600 and 610 with the same color.
However, the Kitchenaid 610 series is the special edition of William Sonoma. With the popular brand of the William Sonoma, you have to pay more money to get the Kitchenaid 610. The physical different of the 610 series is the existence of the LED lamp inside of the mixer. You will need 15 extra watts to operate the Kitchenaid 610 series.
Key features - All-metal 10-speed stand mixer with powerful 575-watt motor - 6-quart stainless-steel mixing bowl; direct-drive transmission - Electronic speed sensor; auto shut-off; Soft Start minimizes splatter - Wire whip, burnished flat beater, spiral dough hook, and pouring shield included - Measurements H: 16.5, W:11.3, D:14.6 - Ten speeds range from very slow stirring to very high beating. - 6-qt. two-tone stainless-steel bowl locks to base; ergonomic handle. Professional whip with 11 stainless-steel wires operates 33% more quickly than typical whips - Stand Mixer includes: 6-qt.-cap. stainless-steel work bowl. Flat beater. Dough hook. Wire whip. Clear plastic pouring shield. - Die-cast zinc and aluminum housing. 14 1/2" x 11 1/4" x 16 1/2" high. 25 lb. 590W.
With the similar design and the little difference of the features, you do not need to confuse about the selection. You just need to go to the local stores at your city and buy the one with the good design. If you do not want to use 15 watts for the LED lamp of the Kitchenaid 610, you should buy the Kitchenaid 600 series.


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Numerous news outlets cover the Executive Branch's changes in Obamacare policy in real time. However, it can be difficult to find the original sources, such as the actual text of the Executive Orders. ( recently gave an example in this blog that links to the executive orders, past executive orders, rulemaking, regulation, etc, on the Contraceptive Religious Exemption issue, here.)
For several years, Timothy Jost, emeritus professor at Washington & Lee Law School, has provided rapidly updates on federal health policy at the Health Affairs blog (here). Lately, his lengthy analyses have been appearing in record time, often less than 24 hours. He provides links to original documents that are often missing in journalists' articles.
Jost's October 12 analysis of the executive order asking for creation of lighter less expensive health plans is here. (Linking to the actual executive order, here.)
Jost's October 13 analysis of the Executive Branch decision to immediately end cost-supporting payments for low income persons in Exchanges is here.
The issue has been progressing through federal court ligitation with differing opinions as to whether the cost-supporting payments are properly authorized and appropriated under current law.
Jost also links to the current Attorney General opinion that payments should stop, here (J. Sessions, 5p).
May 2016 38-page ruling that payments were unauthorized, here (Judge Collyer, DC, 38p).
Article on the Collyer ruling, here.
The price supports for low income persons apparently tally only $7B a year, a tiny part of our $3T healthcare system or the circa $3T federal budget.
Jost's October 14 summary analysis and outlook is here.
Footnote -
Often lost in the excitement about Executive Orders is that they can differ greatly in their actual content and effect. For example, if there was an Executive Order to immediately close the border with Mexico to all traffic, due to emergency conditions, that would have a huge immediate effect. Other policy measures are couched as Executive Orders (with pomp and circumstance) but need not be in that format. The E.O. regarding lighter health plans, for example, directs the HHS to "consider proposing regulations, or revising guidance" on the topic. This could be conveyed equally effectively by a press conference remark, internal instructions, an action item delegated at a Cabinet meeting, a paragraph in a speech, or even a tweet. It gets higher visibility by being couched in the format of an executive order.
As discussed in the citations to Sessions and Collyer above, the ACA issue is that the ACA created tax credits for individuals (S. 1401) and funding for low income persons directly paid to insurers (S. 1402; also called CSR's, cost-sharing reduction), but the ACA provided a clear appropriation of funds only for S. 1401.
Til now, payments have nonetheless been issued as due under both S. 1401 and S.1402. In layman's terms, the issue involves what to do when there is an apparent error in law. On the one hand, we want laws to be enforced as written; on the other hand, we don't want national processes to grind to a halt every time there is a typo. (Sessions directly discusses the Supreme Court decision in King in this regard; link above). Alternatively, the law could be correct as written; S.1402 could be quite deliberately dependent on annual appropriations from the House -- appropriations which the House isn't making. (Another topic in the court action is whether the House had standing to sue the executive branch in this way.)
With a Republican House not wanting to make the fiscal appropriation and a Republican President not wanting to make the payment, and a Federal Court injunction that the payments shouldn't be made, the outcome this week was pretty foreseeable.
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Created in 2001 by Danny Jillefski, United States Pro Wrestling has built its subsequent success around offering its fans a family-friendly product that is heavy on unabashed patriotism and 1980s wrestling nostalgia. The legendary Sam Strong became owner in 2006 and leveraged his enormous name value to make the company into a genuine player, turning the traditional 'Big Two' of SWF and TCW into a 'Big Three'.
In the biggest wrestling story of 2014, USPW were bought by billionaire Allen Packer to provide exclusive content for his new 'Reverie' subscription-based network. With the network's financial muscle and enormous viewership behind them, USPW have quickly become the biggest wrestling company on the planet.
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March 18, 2020 by Dr Terence Tan
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CoolSculpting as a fat removal treatment is gaining popularity in Singapore. It is a no downtime alternative to liposuction, an invasive, surgical procedure that removes excess body fat.
Liposuction uses a thin tube or a cannula, which is connected to a vacuum to suction the fat from areas of your body, such as the hips, thighs, abdomen, and buttocks. You may have to undergo general anaesthesia during surgery, which means you will not be awake during the procedure. Any surgical method of body shaping carries a risk of bleeding, infections, scarring, and adverse reactions to anaesthesia. The recovery process is also painful and requires at least a few days of post-surgery downtime. When CoolSculpting arrived in Singapore, people wanted to know how cryolipolysis works. Unlike liposuction, CoolSculpting has no downtime, as no incisions are required at all.
CoolSculpting freezes unwanted fat cells in the body, which are eventually removed from the body. Since our body is unable to produce new fat cells after five years of age, the fat cells that are removed during CoolSculpting will stay away—for good. Research has shown that CoolSculpting is able to remove 20-25% of body fat with each treatment. Then as CoolSculpting technology progressed with the launch of new applicators such as the CoolAdvantage, for instance, and the introduction of QuadSculpting, the interest in Singapore grew too.
While there is quite a bit of information about CoolSculpting in Singapore, they are mostly in English. Information in Chinese, however, is lacking. Here is a video, which I had done in Chinese, which would give viewers information they need about CoolSculpting in Mandarin.
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The prophet Elijah (Elias) said that the Lord was going to take him to heaven that day. Elisha, who was with him, insisted on staying with him until the end and asked for a double share of Elijah's spirit of prophecy before he would be taken. Elijah used his cloak to divide the waters of the Jordan River and they crossed it. Elijah said to Elisha, if you see me part from you and ascend into heaven, your wish will be granted. As they walked along, a whirlwind separated them and Elisha saw Elijah ascend in a Chariot of Fire. In the icon, we see Elijah passing his mantle to Elisha, who afterwards used it to separate the waters of the Jordan River again. This showed that he had received Elijah's spirit of prophecy. Tradition says that they stayed in the cave depicted before they crossed the Jordan.
The parish building was dedicated to the prophet St. Elias on the day of his feast, July 20, 1969. It was a happy coincidence that it was the same day as the first landing on the moon. The symbolism of fiery chariots ascending to the heavens was not lost on the community! Symbolism aside, this parish prays that, as we dedicate ourselves to him, his spirit of prophecy will continue with us as well.
Because Elijah did not die the death of a mortal but was elevated to Heaven by the hand of God, he is venerated as a saint who was a prefiguration either of Jesus Christ or of St. John the Baptist, a point which can be debated but leaves no doubt that Elijah was a man of God much as the mighty Moses. Known as Elias in the Greek and King James versions of the New Testament, Elijah was a major prophet of God who lived in the eighth century B.C. and hailed from Tishbe of Gilead during the reigns of Ahaziah and Ahab, the latter an idolater whom he vehemently denounced.
The worship of one God had weakened considerably among the tribes of Israel and was further debilitated when the worship of the god Baal was introduced by Jezebel, the wife of Ahab. Jezebel brought forth a procession of idolatrous priests and erected temples to Baal, a god of nature supposedly with greater power than even the omnipotent (All-Powerful) God of Moses. Elijah stormed against the evils of the priests of Baal, who were contaminating the pure worship of God and demoralising the land with their illusions and deceptions and whose princess, Jezebel, was a malefactor of monstrous proportions. He fought the Canaanite god Baal at every turn and strove to revitalise the belief in the one God of the universe, preaching with, an eloquence and passion to those whose faith had waned and bringing many strays back into the fold. He discredited the false prophets of Baal, who turned to the crafty Jezebel for reinforcements and the influence of the throne to turn the tables on this man of God.
Jezebel intensified her efforts to disprove Elijah, who had correctly predicted a three-year drought which ravaged the land, ruining the crops and decimating the herds. He greeted this renewed assembly of priests of Baal with a derisive challenge to test the powers of God and those of Baal, a challenge which the haughty queen accepted, much to her later regret.
The test to decide which was the greater comprised a placing of sacrifices at two altars, one to Baal and the other to God. When all was in readiness each side would call for fire to be ignited, the winner being the one whose fire lit first.
Queen Jezebel herself appeared at the altar of Baal, and her priests were given the first opportunity to call forth the power to light the fire. They appealed to Baal, first in a reverent tone and then with increasing irritation until at last they gave up in disgust. Then the patient Elijah stepped forward and at his first prayer the fire burst forth, following which the onlookers, realising the truth at last, swooped down on the false priests and killed them all.
A further demonstration of the power of the Lord came when Elijah called for an end to the drought and a heavenly rain descended, ending a three-year dry spell that had parched the land.
Thereafter Elijah went to Mt. Sinai, where God had spoken to Moses, and on that holy spot he heard the words of God just as Moses had. He descended with instructions from God himself, among which was the instruction to appoint as his successor a man named Elisha, who later became a prophet of God in his own right. Elijah discovered that God was not necessarily a clap of thunder, a bolt of lightning, or a rumble in the hills, but he could be "a still, small voice".
Elijah stood up to King Ahab and Queen Jezebel on many questions other than the worship of false gods, on one occasion daring to challenge the right of kings to do anything they chose without being guilty. This immunity from God's law was used to seize the vineyards of Naboth, killing the owner in the process. Elijah dared to tell him that he was not above God's law and would, therefore, be punished by the Lord.
Elijah is revered as a Saint in the Orthodox Church and is commemorated on July 20.
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Our current environment is surrounded with technology. Computers are everywhere! Our phones are computers, refrigerators have computers that can order food directly from grocery stores and work places network together so that projects that are being done on one system are shared throughout in real time. When the technology breaks down productivity slows to a crawl. This is just one of the many reasons that you need to have an I.T. specialist on speed dial.
Computer repair comes in many forms, from corporate I.T. to residential computer repair; all machines can run into problems. If your computer system or network is feeling underperforming there are a bunch of things that could be on inside of it. Below are three of the top computer repair issues that can interfere with your computer's ability to perform.
The most common issue with computers is that they become infected. Even when running up to date anti-virus protection on your computer a virus can infect your network. More and more people are using the World Wide Web. With that in mind consider the amount of files that are unknowingly downloaded that are infected. Spyware, malware and computer viruses have been around since the beginning of the computer age. They are created to destroy and damage files while slowing your system down and violating your privacy. If you suspect that your computer has been infected it is crucial to get your system in to a computer repair center. There the virus can be removed; infected files deleted and updated antivirus protection installed.
Another common issue in the world of technology is a computer unit that will not properly boot up. This may be one of the scariest issues to have happen with your computer as retrieving the files stored on the system may not be possible. The hope when a computer is not booting properly is that your power supply has failed. This is a best case scenario. Otherwise a bigger issue may be present, one way or another computer failing to boot need to be brought in for repair immediately.
If you find your computer running slowly it is crucial to have the system looked at by a computer repair specialist. Computers, like cars, need to be maintained and tuned up to keep running properly. When a system is slow it may mean a number of things. One thing that often occurs is that several unnecessary programs and tool bars have been unknowingly installed which in turn uses available memory up slowing the system.


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Microsoft Discontinues Xbox One X, Xbox One S Digital Edition
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The Xbox One now carries two fewer members of its family, with Microsoft announcing it will discontinue both the Xbox One X and the Xbox One S Digital Edition. The latter didn't have a disk drive, while the former was bound to be canceled as we got closer to launch. I don't think there's much chance that the Xbox One X would cannibalize sales, but it's entirely possible that Microsoft is moving very few Xbox One X consoles right now.
The Xbox One S, on the other hand, may still have a role to play in Microsoft's upcoming ecosystem. According to the company, Xbox One games will be supported several years into the future, and console owners who buy games delivered via Smart Delivery will be able to grab upgraded versions as they upgrade with no extra charge. I went over to GameStop to check pricing on the various consoles and came across this amazing screenshot:
Charging the same price for refurbs and pre-owned without explaining the difference, or which customers should pick? It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for them.
If you do want either console, you should pull the trigger fairly quickly. They'll likely be in stock for a short period of time longer, but existing supplies will not be replenished.
It's interesting that we're seeing Microsoft keep the Xbox One around while killing off these specific platforms. Back before the Wii launched, Nintendo caught enormous flak for building an SD-class console when everyone else was building HD hardware at much higher prices. Instead, the Wii's emphasis on last-generation tech made the console much cheaper to buy and appealing to people who hadn't yet upgraded to the latest and greatest 720p / 1080p standards.
Microsoft obviously isn't planning anything like the Wii, but keeping a low-priced entry-level platform in the mix lets gamers without a lot of money to burn buy into the Xbox ecosystem. Given how strongly Microsoft is emphasizing backward compatibility, it may be hoping that customers don't feel like they're being asked to buy into an outdated ecosystem. This is objectively true, at least with a handful of titles; Smart Delivery games will be delivered in higher-resolution form as soon as you upgrade your console.
It wouldn't surprise me if the Xbox One S got a price cut down to $200, but even assuming it stays between $250 and $270, the stack would probably go something like this:
Xbox One S: $200 – $270
Xbox Lockhart (if real): $400 – $500
Xbox Anaconda (Xbox Series X): $500 – $700.
These are admittedly fairly broad ranges, but there's a lot we don't know about how this all plays out. Microsoft hasn't formally stated that Lockhart is a launch-day product, though that announcement is expected to be coming soon. It's entirely possible that Microsoft intends to leverage price psychology, specifically comparative pricing, to drive Xbox Series X adoption.
Here's how this strategy works: Company X launches a top-tier widget for $1,000, a nearly-as-good widget for $700 with all of the same features but less performance, and a basic model for $400, with all baseline capabilities you expect but not much more.
The goal of this price strategy is to encourage users to buy the second option. If the $700 product is only differentiated from the first product by speed (or, alternately, if it lacks access to features that are only useful to a handful of people), then the $700 product looks like the smart choice.
This Is Why We Don't Use Teraflops
Anaconda is a 12TFLOP console, while Lockhart is a 4TFLOP system. The implication of this is straightforward: Lockhart is much slower than Anaconda…
But then it gets complicated. If Lockhart is intended for 1080p, it'll probably use a lower-clocked version of a chip like the 5500XT. The 5500XT is a 1408:88:32 GPU clocked at 1670MHz. At 1450MHz, the 5500XT would offer 4TFLOPS of single-precision floating-point performance. If you assume the 1717MHz game clock AMD specifies for the PC version of the 5500 XT is accurate, the GPU offers 4.835TFLOPs overall. AMD quotes 5.2, but AMD is also basing that on their own maximum frequency, not the game clock. Since we're talking about gaming, I'm going to stick to that metric.
Meanwhile, AMD's old RX 580, which the 5500 XT nominally replaced, offers 5.792TFLOPS at base clock and 6.175 at boost. On paper, therefore, the RX 580 is somewhere between 1.2x faster and 1.28x faster than the RX 5500 XT.
If you check reviews of the GPU, however, you'll see that's not true. While the RX 580 does score some wins over the 5500 XT, on the whole, the RX 5500 XT is either flat or faster than the RX 580 by 8 percent, depending on whether you compare the 4GB or 8GB flavor of 5500 XT. On paper, the RX 580 should be substantially faster. In reality, the increased IPC and higher efficiency of the RDNA core matter far more than a calculated metric that was never meant to stand in as a performance metric anyway.
Once we factor in the possibility that AMD has gained further efficiency with RDNA2, it's easy to see how a relatively svelte GPU could deliver excellent overall performance provided the resolution sticks to 1080p (1440p, tops). I expect Lockhart to match or outperform the Xbox One X, despite the gap in their TFLOPs metrics.
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Daniel Coursey scored 17 points and Mercer pulled off the biggest upset in the NCAA tournament so far by knocking off Duke 78-71. Jakob Gollon added 20 points for the 14th-seeded Bears. The Bears were simply too much for a Duke team with stars Jabari Parker and Rodney Hood. Mercer scored 11 straight points during the late 20-5 run that clinched the biggest victory in school history. It's the second one-and-done in three years for the third-seeded Blue Devils. Mercer won the Atlantic Sun conference championship. That's the same conference that produced 2013 tournament darling Florida Gulf Coast.
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Daniel Coursey scored 17 points and Mercer pulled off the biggest upset in the NCAA tournament so far by knocking off Duke 78-71.
Jakob Gollon added 20 points for the 14th-seeded Bears.
The Bears were simply too much for a Duke team with stars Jabari Parker and Rodney Hood.
Mercer scored 11 straight points during the late 20-5 run that clinched the biggest victory in school history. It's the second one-and-done in three years for the third-seeded Blue Devils.
Mercer won the Atlantic Sun conference championship. That's the same conference that produced 2013 tournament darling Florida Gulf Coast.


Having read a great deal of his writing, I'm inclined to believe him. The point Adorno makes, however, is that the logic that categorises things as "hobbies", as defined as unpaid and thus unserious, attempts to limit what is socially meaningful to the production of value under capitalism. The comforts of bourgeois life are facilitating this alienating trend and reducing the human experience to that of high maintenance cogs. Leisure is where they get ya!
This, more than anything about the content of entertainment and leisure, is something that I think is very much in need of examination; the way we are made to value things in economic terms. As easy as it is to parody traditional critical theory as a bunch of elitists, I still think this insight, that we are made to consider activities that are not financially lucrative as unserious, needs to be put forward. This means that cultural theorists need to take leisure seriously but this might mean treating it more like fiction. This may seem an odd conclusion to reach but I think I can make a case for. That said, there are a few steps to go through before a vague intuition I stumbled upon can make sense to anyone else. So, step one, just what is a cultural theorist?
The arrogance alone of Adorno's position to claim that everyone has been brainwashed (simplifying here) by capital but him, sets alarm bells ringing.
This is a question with as many subtly different answers as there are practitioners. So the best I can do is to state what I think a cultural theorist should be when they come to study leisure. Today, cultural theory has a special place carved out in it for the study of leisure. However, this is but one area in a vast and unruly discipline. Some of cultural theory is more about politics but not like political science is. Some of it more about ontology, epistemology, and identity but not like philosophy is. And some of it is about art but not like art history or aesthetics is. Usually, it requires a blend of these and many more fields to define an object of its research.
My own work is in the communication and critique of the experience of popular music under the conditions that Mark Fisher described as, boring dystopia. To do this I use an obscure method known as sonic fiction, which it would be too much fully explain here (DM me). Put another way, I write about the experience of something that is considered part of the entertainment industry as a subset of leisure industry as a subset of the culture industry. Put in yet another way, I have been trying to find the tools to explain to others what I find so sad about pop music and our relationship to it while all the time holding on to the idea that it can be a truly wonderful thing.
So, as stated, cultural theorists are not philosophers, sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists, critics, scientists (political or otherwise) or artists (or art historians). They can take on the appearance of all of them but always as outsiders, with a certain ironic distance to the field from which they are borrowing. Indeed, when the self-declared members of the aforementioned fields feel themselves drifting into that ironic position, they may find themselves slipping into becoming cultural theorists. Or not. The only thing I can say with near certainty is that they are writers, almost all of them.
As a cultural theorist, I write about the leisure time of people who may or may not exist and I certainly have never met but, rather, seen glimmers of in real people. The edge of something inexpressible gestured towards in an off-the cuff remark or the subtle raise of an eyebrow. These elements are half-remembered and recombined with more concrete things. We use these as tools open up standard interpretations of everyday experiences that others deem unworthy of note. This can then be set against readings of cultural 'texts', which in my case are pop songs, such as Beyoncé's 'Lemonade', Father John Misty's "Bored in the U.S.A" or Carly Simon's "My New Boyfriend".
Why go about it this way? Well, when you ask someone about why they enjoy something—unless they are close friends with whom you discuss this sort of thing often, or they are the sort of people who want to be known for engaging only in justified behaviour (and that is whole other kettle of fish)—you often receive a banal response. Something about a song reminding them of good times with friends or when they were young or because it helps them get the party started or feel pumped. Occasionally, you will hear something more precise like it reminds them of a deceased or distant loved one, or a very particular event. However, this is not enough to explain the pervasiveness of the industries demonised by Adorno or the particularities of their operations. But, similarly, nor does the neat and tidy Adornian explanation that this is all the machinations of capital. The arrogance alone of Adorno's position to claim that everyone has been brainwashed (simplifying here) by capital but him, sets alarm bells ringing.
However, when such a theory is rejected and, with the interview data, we accept the banalities as such and conclude that the industrial frame has simply exploited a potential market, this is as patronising as old-timey anthropologists remarking on perceived irrationality of a tribe that they claim to have discovered. Indeed, this view lends itself to essentialism.
So, when you want to examine someone else's leisure you have to go deep into your object of research. And leisure, as derived from cultural productions, is not only people's reasons for liking something, nor is it the sum of the empirical qualities of the "text" in question. It is, rather, the experience of enjoyment itself. Reaching this space cannot be done by assuming you can decode someone else experience from surface phenomena (as may be assumed by some of the more crass applications of social science), nor by attempting to philosophically give form to the universal characteristics of the experience (as in your classic cultural theory). Instead, what the cultural theorists should do, in the age of theory-fiction, is narrate experience with all the ambiguity that entails.
But there is a joy in being a killjoy that must not go unexamined. The sharing of Slavoj Žižek videos exposing the class exploitation of the celebration of working class authenticity in Titanic would be such a joy.
But aside from throwing around a trendy neologism like theory fiction, which you can read more about elsewhere, what else justifies this conclusion? Something that stands out to me is the concept of the "killjoy" as described by Sara Ahmed. Ahmed develops the concept as a way to critique the knee-jerk response to those who point out and try to overturn oppression on the basis of gender as "feminist killjoys". However, as she argues in her essay "Happy Objects" this is a misappropriation of a "feeling cause". When someone tells you something you have done/said is sexist or misogynistic, especially if you consider yourself to be neither of those things, this can be painful and as such you may look to localize your pain on the "feminist killjoy" before you. However, Ahmed argues that, instead, you should perhaps look at the joy instead. Perhaps the thing that was giving you joy, a thrill of power or status, needed killing?
The surface reading of this could serve as defence for the Adornian point of view; "they hate me because I'm right". But there is a joy in being a killjoy that must not go unexamined. The sharing of Slavoj Žižek videos exposing the class exploitation of the celebration of working class authenticity in Titanic would be such a joy. If we are not careful, the critique of leisure could become a simple exercise of filing of the complexities of reality to fit in with a theoretical framework that one enjoys using.
This is an impasse; between the desire/ability to critique the leisure and enjoyment of others, and the power and privilege of engaging in such critique. When you write about the leisure of others, you will bring certain assumptions to the table. You can choose to attempt to mitigate them, which won't work, or you can lean into them and become an elitist parody. This is why cultural theory must not retreat to the mere description nor insist on prescription but, instead, it must engage with the practice of narration. The theorist must neither pretend to be a neutral observer nor should they only list-off the control mechanisms they have taken to mitigate their biases. They should engage in a practice that attempts to give structure, comprehension, and intensity to experience but in such a way as to leave things open. However, such narration cannot be afforded the same freedom as fiction proper or fall in the prescriptive declarations of theory. It needs to chart new ground that criticises both leisure and enjoyment as experienced by the culture while recognizing it itself is of that same culture and perhaps falls into the same category of which it criticizes. In the face of this theorists should become pretty reliable narrators.
I stated earlier that the cultural theorist occupies an outsider position but we should be particular about what this means. Adorno considers himself to be a cultural outsider and in many respects he was, having fled Germany for the United States to escape the Nazis. But evident from his writing was that he thought himself an outsider of the very bourgeois he sought to criticise, all the while not realising that his approach to leisure and entertainment was based on the very same line of thinking as the society he critiqued. Here, he was an insider in claiming that activity worthy of engagement should conform to a limited understanding of meaningfulness that can be readily brought into a semantic discourse. This way of thinking is also what produces the image of the rational consumer and what this fails to take into account is that this discourse is rotten to the core. He is, however, on to something with his pessimism, in that none of us and getting out of it alive.
The cultural theorist needs to realise their outsider status is limited to disciplines. When it comes to culture, however, they are as deep in as anyone else. The strength of cultural theory engaging in fiction as a practice is that it allows us to play with a certain duplicity. This is a specific kind of irony, not to be confused with the simplicities of ironic racism, sexism or homophobia. It is an irony towards the very act we are engaged in itself. The creatures that we are, be it a banker or a revolutionary, are creatures of the culture of capital, right down to our use of leisure. We either embrace or react against a status quo. Narrating a critique of leisure through theory gives us the agility to adapt to the world we hope to change as we change it, instead of the wedding ourselves to a plan that looked so good on the horizon. We need to write stories that ask for a new draft.


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Q: Custom email template for a specific product category I am stuck in a situation where the requirement is to create a custom email template for a particular product category, so that when any user buy product from that category he/she get that customised order email. Please help if anyone have any idea about how this can be achieved. Thanks in advance.

A: Firstly extend WC_Email class to define the email header, subject, email template for content
secondly, add custom email class to the default WooCommerce email classes using woocommerce_email_classes filter, with trigger that calls terms
if ( has_term( 'Your Cat', 'product_cat', $item['product_id'] ) )

lastly, Create an email template to be used to generate email content for your custom email.
this answer to this question involves a lot of code, far too much for SO so you may want to do some reading like.
https://cloudredux.com/adding-sending-custom-woocommerce-email/

A: Whatever plugin you're using for ecommerce, there should be an email hook available to customize the emails.
For example, WooCommerce provides 9 different hooks in its "new order" email. Here's a visual reference.
Add a function that runs on the desired hook, and you can add conditional content. You'll have to find a way to identify "any product from a particular category" - pull order details, loop through the products, and if any of them is from that category, trigger your conditional content.
Further related reading: https://tommcfarlin.com/customizing-woocommerce-emails-hooks/

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