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State Highway 45, Taranaki, New Zealand
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Located on the western edge of New Zealand's North Island, the Taranaki region is less visited by travelers than other parts of the country, but the combination of its wonderfully symmetrical volcanic cone and its cavalcade of surf beaches makes it worthy of road-trip exploration. Dubbed Surf Highway 45, the meandering route south from New Plymouth to Hawera features the ever-present profile of Mount Taranaki and the opportunity to check out quiet side roads down to ruggedly spectacular bays pounded by Tasman Sea surf. Fascinating highlights include the skeletal remains of the 1903 shipwreck of the SS Gairloch and the Cape Egmont Lighthouse, first erected in 1865.
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Gleneagle or Glen Eagle is a locality in Western Australia.  The locality is south east of the state capital, Perth, close to Jarrahdale on the Albany Highway.

It now remains as a rest stop for drivers.

The townsite functioned as a settlement for forest workers and their families.

The locality was seriously affected by the bushfires in summer of 1960/61, the Jarrahdale fires. Fire burned the town of Dwellingup and the smaller settlements of Holyoak, Nanga Brook and Karridale. There were many injuries but no deaths and serious losses of pasture, stock and fencing.  A Royal Commission was held in the wake of these fires.

The settlement operated its own school between 1939 and 1967.  The school closed due to declining enrolments as the district of Wandering became the larger service centre. Located on the Albany Highway a plaque commemorates the location. Remnants of the townsite including roads and central water tower remain, but the houses have been removed by the government agency upon closure.

The name is also shared with a significant mining company in Western Australia but the locality and company have no direct correlation.

References

Further reading
 Woodland, Edwin (1987).  Mobile bush school on rails.  (re-  Provision of school by Millars Timber & Trading Co) Bulletin (Australian Railway Historical Society), Oct. 1987, p. 232–234

Ghost towns in Western Australia

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Turkish president's advisor: Heroic Azerbaijani soldiers led by commander-in-chief restore justice
Heroic Azerbaijani soldiers led by Commander-In-Chief President Ilham Aliyev restore justice, main Turkish Presidential Advisor Yalcin Topcu told Trend.
According to Topcu, the glorious Azerbaijani army, liberating its country from the occupation, teaches a lesson on the front line to the aggressive Armenia, which commits crimes against humanity, violating international law.
"The Azerbaijani army is capable of returning every inch of the occupied territories, solves tasks put before it, and drives away the occupiers," he said.
Touching upon Armenian claims about Turkey's construction of a military base on the territory of Azerbaijan, he called this a deliberate disinformation.
"The source of this misinformation and the slanderous campaign is known. There is no need for Turkey to create a military base on the territory of the brotherly state, neither to conclude any special agreement to support brotherly Azerbaijan," the advisor noted.
He also pointed out that, despite the pandemic, the Azerbaijani and Turkish armies held a number of joint military exercises this year.
Speaking about the rocket attacks on Azerbaijani cities by Armenia with the support of the ASALA - PKK-YPG terrorist organizations, Topcu said that this is yet another evidence that Armenia is committing crimes against humanity.
"Based on international law and the right to self-defense, Azerbaijan protects its people and the country's territorial integrity. The glorious Azerbaijani army is heroically fighting for liberation from the occupation of its native lands within the framework of international law and in accordance with the requirements of the UN Security Council resolutions," he said.
"The main purpose of shelling Azerbaijani cities by Armenia is to provoke Azerbaijan to retaliate. The invader Armenia perfectly understands that it cannot win this war alone, and therefore resorts to all illegal actions, including terror," he added.
"As the founder of Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk said: "The joy of Azerbaijan is our joy, its grief is our grief," and also, as the National Leader of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev said: "We are one nation, two states," concluded the main adviser.


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A Letter from FSM Congress David Panuelo of Pohnpei
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The following is an excerpt of a Letter Written by FSM Congressman David Panuelo… I just simply added the pictures of my Nephews here to show that we do have our citizens serve honorably in the US Armed Services… Just out of our little island of Ifalik, with a population of maybe 500, we have more than 15 serving… Just a little piece of info for your consumption. Enjoy it! "As a citizen of the Federated States of Micronesia, I have been very saddened to read recent reports of negative attitudes and discrimination directed at our fellow Micronesians by some on the United States. We hear stories about Micronesian schoolchildren being singled out by bullies, Micronesians families being discriminated against by landlords, and Micronesians crowding homeless shelters. Perhaps more disturbingly, this stereotype of Micronesians as victims, scapegoats, and scroungers has been fueled by politicians characterizing Micronesian migrants as a drain on government resources, in what has been described as a "Compact Impact problem." Having recently received an email from a cousin of mine, Hainrick Panuelo, who is on the U.S. Armed Forces in Afghanistan asking what we are doing about the criticism that are being directed against Micronesians in Hawaii, Guam, and elsewhere in the United States, this issue is very personal to me. Micronesians are on the front lines of war zones, fighting alongside American citizens and defending the same freedoms and rights that Americans value so much. There is a disconnect between the United States government's honoring of our fallen servicemen at the Pohnpei International Airport and the talk of "Compact Impact problems" from American citizens and officials alike. I also have personal experience of the compromises we have made in voting to support the national interests of the U.S. at the United Nations at the expense of our relations with other developing nations. So, here I say today, where did our real friends go?
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Why such a short memory? Micronesia and the United States have a unique and special relationship, following the U.S. trusteeship of the region. Our Compact of Free Association with the United States permits our citizens to enter, work, and reside in the United States, and grant similar rights to United States citizens wishing to live and work in our islands. While the Compact Impact costs is a mere speck in the totality of the U.S. economy, the immigration provisions of the Compact are a lifeline for small island economies like that of the FSM. Although some may choose to focus on the benefits Micronesians receive from the United States, the totality of our relationship is more complex. The Compact gives the United States government veto powers over the nearly one million square miles of Micronesia's water and air space. The U.S. can no more unilaterally create a bottleneck for FSM citizen's right to freely travel and work in the United States, than the government of the Federal States of Micronesia can revisit the defense provisions of the Compact. Aren't the veto powers over the waters and air space of the FSM that the two counties agreed in the Compact a security and strategic lifeline for the U.S.? As a student at the time of the Compact was signed and as a congressman now, I have always believed that is a fair exchange. And so Micronesia shouldn't be looked at as a charity case. I am not denying that the reliance of some Micronesians on social service programs in the U.S. is a valid concern. The reality is that some of our citizens are not prepared to enter the competitive U.S. job market. Every new migrant group faces this kind of hurdle. Our Compact negotiators on both sides early on foresaw this issue and include compensation provisions in the Compact for the U.S. federal government to reimburse U.S. territories or States affected by the kind of Compact Impact we are talking about today. So, why such a short memory? But we are mostly hearing negative reports about the impact of the Compact. By contrast, every time I travel to the U.S. it makes me proud to see just how many Micronesians are working hard at U.S. airports, in the U.S. tourism, and service industry, in the manufacturing industry, in the fields of Maui and on farms elsewhere in the U.S, in the fast-food industry, and in nursing homes caring for seniors citizens. In fact, a great number of our citizens are productive members of the U.S. workforce contributing to the U.S. economy.
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Just among my own circle of friends and acquaintances, I know many FSM citizens who are succeeding in the United States. Len Isotoff from Chuuk is currently the general manager of Matson Navigation Co. for Guam and Micronesia, and the chairman of USO in Guam, a non-profit organization that provides morale and recreational services to members of the U.S. military. A cousin of mine, Walden Weilbacher from the island of Pohnpei, is the head of the secretariat of the Association of Pacific Island Legislatures based in Guam and an active member of the FSM-Guam community. Aren Palik, from the States of Kosrae, is the president and CEO of the Pacific Islands Development Bank base on Guam, which was established in 1989 to help accelerate the economic and social development of member countries. Viladino Raatior, from the State of Chuuk, is currently assistant director at the International Program Office at Santa Clara University in Northern California and has sent to more than 105 study abroad program locations in more than 50 countries. Mr. Raatior also has a successful home-based web design business. Rocketchun Holden, an FSM citizen from the island of Pohnpei, employs around forty people in the courier business he started fourteen years ago in Idaho, and another twenty in his expanding chain of sushi restaurants. Mr. Bruce Musrasrik, an FSM citizen from the State of Pohnpei who in June 2007 was promoted to hotel manager for the Ohana Islander Waikiki, which is part of the chain of Ohana Hotels and Resorts.
I also have many well-educated FSM citizen college classmates and friends, too numerous to mention here, living across the United States in gainful employment and contributing to the U.S. economy in their respective professions and skills. Most of these friends have lived in the U.S for a long time with their families and children. A am encouraged and feel hope for your our future as a nation when I see and talk to their well educated children. Together with our real friends in the U.S., we need to do more to promote the positive impact that our relationship has on both our nations. I hope that together we can begin to create a climate where American officials and citizens can focus on the benefits, and not just the costs, of the Compact. One of our founding fathers, the late John Mangefel, said it well during the negotiations when he said, "You cannot put a ship on a canoe, but you can put a canoe on a ship." In other words, when there are challenges to be faced in our relationship, the shop of the United States has more capacity to address then than the FSM canoe."
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Of course, there's also the timing of Apple's new privacy-focused ad push to consider — just a few weeks after the news broke of a huge FaceTime bug that would allow anyone to listen in on calls made through Apple's platform. The incident has since been patched, but it was undeniably a black eye for the company, one that Apple seems eager to put behind it with this new campaign that looks to reinforce that privacy is still a big priority.
I never liked Apple because of the pretentious "uh oh we're just so much better" and their absurd prices. But recently Google forced me to ditch their last thing I couldn't easily ditch. Android. I've ditched all the other Google services ages ago and replaced them with private solutions, but Android was that last thing where you actually don't have many options.
You can either go with dumb phone, stay with Android and use custom ROM without Gapps which means you have a very advanced dumb phone plus many banking apps just flat out refuse to work or you go with iOS. And I must say iPhone actually isn't "that" expensive.
Sure, Xs Max is still stupid expensive at like 1400€, but XR at touch over 800€ is very reasonable when you realize Apple is really going hard with the privacy thing and the fact you'll basically get software updates for as long as you'll have the phone. Good luck with that on almost any Android. Even for Android One phones, they only guarantee 2 years of updates which is just pathetic when you piss away same amount of money for a phone. And sure, iOS has its share of dumb things and limitations, but I got used to it in just 1 week without ever using it before and being on Android since freaking Froyo I think.
I called it quite some time ago that Apple can and will push privacy hard, because that's the only thing Google will never have and that'll be a huge selling point for very long with Apple. It's also nice to see they are enforcing privacy with the apps too on their platform, not just their OS. Something where Google is also lacking badly.
Apple is worse than Google and MSFT, they hide behind people and say Privacy matters and all those stuffs but iphone and every tech is/has full telemetry logs on-device and syncs with their servers for analytics just like Google. I have seen 800-1GB of telemetry garbage being stored on ageing iphone waiting for wifi for sending the logs.
Apple is garbage these days and chinese companies have taken over. My mom is an iphone user so I know how cumbersome its to maintain an iPhone. For now I blocked updates and other garbage because their updates runined cellular strength, download/upload speed on LTE.
Seems alot of ppl understating whats telemetry means, ofc noone can prove 100 % its only for improve their products, but many companys do that for real. problem come when they do " secret usage " of all that telemetry.
Do you know how much of that is actually sensitive data?
I feel there's a difference between 100 GB of useless(for the consumer) data of how many times you opened an app versus 1MB of sensitive data.
I'm with you on all you say. I have an Android because my wife bought it for me. But when the updates stop, I'll likely buy a used Apple. They're reasonably priced, etc. and older (than the latest $$$) models are quite capable, certainly for my uses.
Still waiting for the option to encrypt iCloud backups without Apple getting a copy of my encryption key.
I feel that apple went into the security of their devices and products very quickly, such as full device encryption and the secure chip to store payment information separate from the rest of the device. On top of that their face and touch ID are stellar compared to the competition of android phones, often coming up on top for being the most accurate.
I feel that due to the nature of Apple products they don't really need much tracking as compared to google or microsoft. Where google and microsoft has a wide array of products such as google drive / one drive that are catered as free to the general public, Apple services are only really for those who already have Apple products, and as such they've already spent money on Apple as compared to the free services provided by google and microsoft.
The only telemetry data they need from their users are probably how often their phones are being used, what is it being used for and how can they improve it.
Telemetry data isn't useless but it can reveal habits of each and every users which is dangerous.
There is however a difference when you look at a company like Apple whose sole purpose of it is to make better products so you buy more of them, because buying their products is their direct income. Google on the other hand, they gather data t literally sell it and make money of it. You're not buying anything from them and their only incentive to have more users is through hoarding more data from more users to sell more of it.
Also ppl need to drop this ignorant attitude that if it's telemetry, then it's hoarding user data. Of course telemetry can gather user data as well, it's impossible to make system that entirely excludes all personal points. But there is a big difference from just straight up data hoarding like Google is doing and telemetry like Apple is doing.


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Q: SMPS load frequency to switching frequency If the frequency of the load exceeds the SMPS switching frequency, what are the results?

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If the frequency of the load exceeds the SMPS switching frequency, what are the results?

If what you mean is the frequency of current drawn by the load...
Like any regulator, your SMPS controls its output impedance via feedback up to a certain frequency that is lower than the switching frequency. How much lower depends on the design. Above that, its output impedance is determined by the output capacitors.
So the regulator/SMPS handles the load current up to the frequency where output caps take over.

A: For a HF load greater than HF SMPS source, the voltage regulator depends on the capacitance ratio of load to source. Otherwise a resistive load will draw all it's current from the low ESR output caps as the SMPS keeps charging it up.   In some cases, you might use an RC filter to reduce load regulation ripple.

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In Morocco
Literatura | 130 págs.
Editorial: John Beaufoy Publishing
Collección: Stanfords Travel Classics
Tipo: Literatura de viajes y relatos
Edith Wharton journeyed to Morocco in the final days of the First World War, at a time when there was no guidebook to the country. In Morocco is the classic account of her expedition. A seemingly unlikely chronicler, Wharton, more usually associated with American high society, explored the country for a month by military vehicle. Travelling from Rabat and Fez to Moulay Idriss and Marrakech, she recorded her encounters with Morocco's peoples, traditions and ceremonies, capturing a country at a moment of transition from an almost unknown, roadless empire to a popular tourist destination. Her descriptions of the places she visited - mosques, palaces, ruins, markets and harems - are typically observant and brim with colour and spirit, whilst her sketches of the country's history and art are rigorous but accessible. This is a wonderful account by one of the most celebrated novelists and travel writers of the twentieth century, and a fascinating portrayal of an extraordinary country. Stanfords Travel Classics feature some of the finest historical travel writing in the English language, with authors hailing from both sides of the Atlantic. Every title has been reset in a contemporary typeface to create a series that every lover of fine travel literature will want to collect and keep.
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Advent tears open the night like a flash of lightning hope. It sounds an alarm, awaking us from the stupor of struggle and toil. Our world is lulled to sleep by the droning of kings, the marching of boots, and the frenzy of crisis. Not just this age, but every age.
When Hebrew exiles finally returned home after seventy years of captivity, they were like those who dream. Years later, the Temple and the land still sat in rubble as discouragement replaced courage to rebuild the ancient ruins. Emperors rose and fell. Rulers came and went. Everyone sought to carve out his own little kingdom, but all the kingdoms were falling even at the height of glory. Kings and kingdoms continue conquering while also failing and falling from glory.
Advent shakes the soul awake to The King, The Judge, The One and Only Hope for all creation. When he speaks the earth trembles, and everything that can shake will shake. He comes not to kill, steal, and destroy, but to heal the brokenhearted, set the fatherless in families, and welcome the weak and weary into His yoke of love.
In this night of worldly worry, let us lift up our eyes for hope is drawing near. The longing of ages, the Savior of humanity is come, has come, will come. He's breaking into our lives even now.


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More than just Madonna: Kabbalah has millions of online students around the world – an Article in the Canadian Press
October 18, 2007 at 10:31 am · Filed under News, October Tour 2007
TORONTO (October 17, 2007): Without the Internet, studying Kabbalah every day would be more of a chore for Susan Morales, who already leads a busy life teaching and checking up on her nursing students.
But by going online, her class with her teacher Rav Michael Laitman, which is webcastlive every day from Israel, is just a click away for the Toronto resident who lectures at Ryerson University.
"The miracle of that is just fantastic," said Morales, 58, who has been doing Kabbalah every day – a requirement for all students – for the past six years.
Laitman is the founder and president of the Bnei Baruch Kabbalah Education and Research Institute in Israel, which has branches all over the world including Toronto.
Kabbalah, which is Hebrew for reception, is an ancient "method of spiritual growth and development offering an inspiring path of self-discovery and spiritual elevation," according to the centre.
It aims to answer life's deepest question: What is life about?
In an interview during a visit to Toronto, Laitman said the Internet plays a major role in getting the Kabbalah message out.
"When I started building the academy in 1991, the Internet was basically non-existent," he said in Hebrew as he spoke through an interpreter.
Laitman went through some difficult years using "snail mail."
The web improved communication, and, "as a result now today we have approximately two million students worldwide – about 200,000 in Canada – using the Internet from 47 countries in 26 languages," he said.
Thousands more practise it through The Kabbalah Centre, another Israel-based organization that uses the web and has branches worldwide.
Through Bnei Baruch, said Morales, classes can be done any time because it has one of the largest archives of downloadable lessons.
"If I wanted to sit in front of my computer and listen and study 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year, I could do it and not view (the same) lesson again."
Rob Taylor, 56, a project management consultant in the power industry, says he's up at 3 a.m. to study Kabbalah.
Generally he either studies texts or takes classes online with Laitman. Then throughout the day he's always working on what he learned.
"You start evaluating yourself," said Taylor, an eight-year veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and a former undercover cop who lives in Toronto.
"Why do I see it this way? Why is it affecting me the way it does?"
In 1984, when he first learned about Kabbalah, there wasn't a lot of translated material, he said. Until the late 20th century, it was closed to all but a few select and serious students.
"There were commentaries but nothing you could really get your teeth into, to really understand it," he said.
Then in the late 1990s, things began to change, he said.
"I started coming across material mostly put together by Laitman," author of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Kabbalah."
Now, more than 5,000 books are available on Amazon.com, most written after 2000, according to the Idiot's Guide. As well, more than 200,000 lessons are available online.
Besides books, such as the Idiot's Guide, making it more accessible to people, interest really ignited after pop singer and actress Madonna became heavily involved.
"When she went public about it, more people were asking about what this is," said Jacob Kessler, 25, who helped established the Kabbalah Club at the University of Toronto.
"More people started coming out to study meetings or … taking a class here and there at The Kabbalah Centre," said Kessler, who was introduced to Kabbalah by his parents when he was a young child.
Kessler, who is working on a bachelor's degree in Judaic studies with a focus on mystical Judaism and Kabbalah, says lots of students are interested in Kabbalah – sometimes classes are full.
But Madonna is only part of the reason why Kabbalah is being studied by so many people these days, said Laitman.
"Humanity is in a global crisis: Divorce rates are soaring, drug abuse, depression. Globalization causes us all to be interconnected and at the same time we're all hateful to each other," he said.
"When you lose hope … you start searching. Instinctively people are discovering that the answer to it probably exists in Kabbalah," he said.
"That's why kabbalists for the first time in 5,000 years of Kabbalah's existence are now exposing it to the whole world," he said. As a result, "we see that Kabbalah is a method for correcting and for restoring balance."
People of all walks of life are finding it helpful, said Morales. She has met devout Christians, Orthodox Jews, observant Muslims and agnostics studying it.
At the core of Kabbalah, she said, "is the correction of oneself."
How does one become more like the bestowing creator, or God, said Morales. That's how spirituality is defined in Kabbalah.
In Kabbalah, correct intentions will lead you closer to God, or the creator, who is a giving force, a bestowing force, said Laitman. "The whole of nature is a giving nature, a loving nature."
Each organ in our body functions to benefit the body, he said.
If one, however, begins "to pull towards itself to consume the rest of the body" it becomes cancerous, he said.
"This is why Kabbalah states that if humanity rises above its egoism it will not be cancerous towards the whole of nature."
Today's interconnectedness "should compel us to rise above our personal egos and achieve the right harmony and connection among us in giving to each other."
"When Kabbalah opens up the picture of the world to us it kind of forces us to become good," he said.
Taylor says he gradually turned to Kabbalah during his stints in the Marines and with the police out of frustration.
"You spend a lot of time in those environments because you want to fix things," he said. "Then you reach a point of understanding that you can't."
Finally, "you come to realize that the whole structure begins with individual correction," he said.
"We have to fix ourselves internally before we can even think about going out there and correcting something else."
That, he said, "has probably been the biggest change" in his life since he began … studying Kabbalah.
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VIDEO: Rav Michael Laitman PhD in Mexico
October 17, 2007 at 2:44 pm · Filed under Video
Highlights from Rav Michael Laitman's tour of Mexico in 2006. Rav Laitman will be appearing publicly in Mexico (October 30, 2007) and in Monterrey's Fórum Universal de las Culturas 2007 (November 4, 2007) after his United States and Canada tour. For more information, stay tuned to Kabbalah Blog or contact spanish@kabbalah.info
How to Understand Nature's Program and Know What Path to Take – an Interview with Rav Michael Laitman PhD in Shalom Toronto
October 16, 2007 at 11:52 am · Filed under Interviews, News, October Tour 2007
In an interview with Shalom Toronto columnist Jonathan Dahoah-Halevi, Rav Michael Laitman, PhD explained that studying the Kabbalah can help humanity have a positive influence on the forces at work in the world and reach a high spiritual level to become one with nature and God. The following is an excerpt from the interview:
Shalom Toronto: Does the Kabbalah have the power to solve global problems?
Rav Laitman: The Kabbalah is the answer to all the world's problems because it deals with the world in general. Man is driven by his ego. The development of the ego leads to hatred, despair, drugs, terrorism and air pollution, and for all those things there is the Kabbalah which teaches us how to relate to the world and our fellow men to reach harmony, to have a positive influence and to reduce human suffering.
Shalom Toronto: How can the Kabbalah solve the problem of air pollution?
Rav Laitman: The Kyoto Protocol [an international agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions] and other agreements cannot reduce air pollution. Nature has another program. Nature needs to bring us into a state of balance. It is a mistake to think that all we have to do is burn less. What we have to do is understand nature's program and then we will know what path to take. Air pollution is not the main issue, but human thoughts and behavior are what influence nature and everything else is completely marginal.
Click Here for This Issue of Shalom Toronto, and Read the Full Interview on Page 49
Rav Laitman will be giving a public lecture tonight in Toronto at the B'nai Brith Building, 15 Hove Street (Bathurst & Sheppard).
Click here for bookings, and for more information on Rav Laitman's United States and Canada tour
Beyond the trendy red string bracelets – an Article in the NWI Times
Rav Michael Laitman, PhD continued his United States and Canada tour last night with a lecture in Chicago on the global crisis—its cause and its solution—according to authentic Kabbalah. The media continues to follow Rav Laitman throughout his tour, and yesterday's NWI Times article "Beyond the Trendy Red String Bracelets" by journalist Molly Woulfe, shows that the basic message of authentic Kabbalah is gradually becoming more clarified with regard to other ways people understand Kabbalah, however the confusion of differing opinions hovering around the word "Kabbalah" still keeps seeping into the discussion.
"Authentic Kabbalah is a science, pure science, that explains how we balance ourselves and nature. The more balanced we are, the better we feel," Woulfe quoted Rav Laitman from a private interview.
Woulfe focused on Rav Laitman's message for the cause of the global crisis we currently face: humanity's growing egoism. "Look at films from 50 years ago. We see that people were simple people. They managed to get along with each other. They didn't do much damage to nature. The (collective) ego constantly increased and intensified from generation to generation. Today, it's at such a magnitude, that we hate even ourselves and our kids and everyone, the whole world. That's why we're so alienated," Rav Laitman stated.
After quoting Rav Laitman on the cause of the global crisis, rather than getting into what Rav Laitman had to say about the solution to the global crisis, on how to balance ourselves and nature, Woulfe opened a discussion on the controversy surrounding the understanding of Kabbalah in religious circles: that one needs to have delved into the study of religious texts prior to studying Kabbalah, and that one needs to pay attention to Jewish beliefs and customs while studying Kabbalah…
This shows that prior to someone listening to the message of how authentic Kabbalah can fix all of the world's problems through guided instruction on balancing with nature, a person who is still trying to find his feet in the wisdom of Kabbalah can easily get stuck on differing opinions surrounding the question "What is Kabbalah?"
In order to clarify this question for first-time investigators, Bnei Baruch created the "What is Kabbalah?" environment, containing basic information about what is and is not Kabbalah, who can study Kabbalah, and why Kabbalah is becoming increasingly popular in our times. Once a person skips through this information, they can continue with Your First Course in Kabbalah – a short 5-lesson video cours
Click Here to Sign Up for a Free Kabbalah Introductory Course – Starts Soon!e covering Kabbalah's fundamental principles.
Kabbalah's popularity, controversy are no secret – an Article in the Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO TRIBUNE (October 12, 2007): In advance of Rav Laitman's upcoming lecture at the Oakton Community College in Skokie, near Chicago, entitled "The Kabbalah Experience: The Relevance of Authentic Kabbalah in Our Lives," journalist Deborah Horan wrote an article briefly tracing differing views on the disclosure of Kabbalah in our times.
– Read the Article in the Chicago Tribune
If there is one thing that becomes obvious from Rav Laitman's recent contact with U.S. journalists, there is a lot of confusion between the Kabbalah that Rav Laitman teaches and other claims to Kabbalah which first need to be differentiated. Terms which have stuck to the word "Kabbalah" over the years, like "Jewish mysticism," "religion," and "Judaism," are picked up on and explained in a response to the Chicago Tribune article by a Bnei Baruch student.
– Read the Article's Response in Suite101
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Nissar Darmani
Role of Calcium in Vomiting
By Weixia Zhong and Nissar A. Darmani
Cisplatin-like chemotherapeutics cause vomiting via calcium (Ca2+)-dependent release of multiple neurotransmitters/mediators (dopamine, serotonin, substance P, prostaglandins and leukotrienes) from the gastrointestinal enterochromaffin cells and/or the brainstem. Intracellular Ca2+ signaling is triggered by activation of diverse emetic receptors (including neurokininergic NK1, serotonergic 5-HT3, dopaminergic D2, cholinergic M1, or histaminergic H1), whose stimulation in vomit-competent species evokes emesis. Other emetogens such as cisplatin, rotavirus NSP4 protein, and bacterial toxins can also induce intracellular Ca2+ elevation. Our findings demonstrate that application of the L-type Ca2+ channel (LTCC) agonist FPL 64176 and the intracellular Ca2+ mobilizing agent thapsigargin (a sarco/endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase inhibitor) cause vomiting in the least shrew. On the other hand, blockade of LTCCs by corresponding antagonists (nifedipine or amlodipine) not only provide broad-spectrum antiemetic efficacy against diverse agents that specifically activate emetogenic receptors such as 5-HT3, NK1, D2, and M1 receptors, but can also potentiate the antiemetic efficacy of palonosetron against the nonspecific emetogen, cisplatin. In this review, we will provide an overview of Ca2+ involvement in the emetic process; discuss the relationship between Ca2+ signaling and the prevailing therapeutics in control of vomiting; highlight the current evidence for Ca2+-signaling blockers/inhibitors in suppressing emetic behavior and also draw attention to the clinical benefits of Ca2+-signaling blockers/inhibitors for the treatment of nausea and vomiting.
Part of the book: Calcium and Signal Transduction
Francisco Javier Martin-Romero
University of Extremadura, Spain
Eulalia Pozo-Guisado
Aida M. Lopez-Guerrero
Carlos Pascual-Caro
Ileana Farcasanu
University of Bucharest, Romania
Lavinia Ruta
Noelia Espinosa-Bermejo
Delfina C Dominguez
Stanislav Kolesnikov
Claudia Valentina Popa


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Lindell Audio 17X
Mono FET Compressor
Hardware > Processor
By Matt Houghton
What would happen if you upgraded every component in an 1176 compressor and added all the functions you wanted? One man set out to answer that question...
Lindell Audio are a company I'd heard little of until recently, but I was familiar with the name of the man behind them: Tobias Lindell is an award-winning producer at Sweden's Bohus Sound Studios (www.bohussound.com), and moderates a well-known online forum whose sole focus is boutique and high-end outboard audio gear. Given this, you'd have every right to expect that Lindell Audio's first outboard offering, their 17X mono compressor, would be something special.
Design Aims
The inspiration for this compressor is the UREI/Universal Audio 1176, which has proved very popular for good reasons but isn't perfect for everyone's needs. This being the case, there have been various different takes on the design: not only have UREI/UA released several different revisions, but several other companies have tried to improve on the design, or incorporate it within more fully-featured processors. Lindell's approach has been to trust his instincts and expertise as a producer, and create a high-quality compressor to suit his own style of working.
In part, that has meant adding things he feels are missing from the 1176. As with the Slate Pro Dragon, for example, you'll find high-pass filters for the compressor's side-chain, and a wet/dry mix control. The combination of these two features can make a huge difference to the degree of control you have over the sound. The side-chain high-pass filter enables you to make the compressor ignore prominent low-frequency (LF) content in instruments such as kick and bass. What this means in practice is that you can avoid unwanted pumping but achieve plenty of solidity, while leaving low-end elements on a bus, such as kicks and bass guitar, or the lower frequencies of individual instruments relatively 'unsquished'. There are five selectable high-pass frequency options for the side-chain filter: off, 100Hz, 200Hz, 300Hz and 600Hz, taking you well into the low mid-range territory of instruments such as guitar, snare drum and vocals. There are also fixed-frequency switchable high and low-pass filters for the audio signal. These slope gently at 6dB/octave, and should be useful for cleaning up rumble or other unwanted noises at the frequency extremes.
The wet/dry mix control is useful because it gives the user instant access to parallel compression without the need to juggle two separate controls to maintain the levels, or to tie up mixer channels. It's such a simple, yet incredibly useful feature that I can't understand why everyone (including UA with their 1176!) doesn't incorporate this into their processors!
It's not all about additions, though. There are fewer attack and release settings, for example: there are five stepped settings for each, compared with the seven available on the 1176. I have a feeling that the options are limited to five because that's how many stops are available on those tasty Telecaster switches, but it's not necessarily a case of style over substance: the available options seem well-judged, and I never felt that I was missing out. Other things, such as the five ratio settings (4:1, 8:1, 12:1, 20:1, and 100:1) remain the same as on the 1176, with the 100:1 setting resembling the 'all buttons' mode.
For those of you who are bothered about this sort of thing, Lindell told me that the starting point for his new design was a Revision F model of the1176... but he also stressed that this means very little in itself, given the degree to which he has tweaked the design and upgraded the components. I can see what he meant, too: the sheer quality exuded by the 17X and the attention to design details struck me as soon as I took one (I was sent two) out of the box. The front panel is reassuringly weighty, and the whole 2U-high metal rack casing has a pleasing solidity about it. The externally visible components are of high quality, too: there are gold-plated XLRs for the balanced I/O; the single, large VU/GR meter is a Sifam AL20SQ unit; some selector switches are Fender Telecaster types, as mentioned earlier, while smaller binary switches light up in the on position; and so on. The utility-chic khaki paint job ties everything together nicely, too.
With the top of the rack case removed, the high quality of the internal components and the case layout is plain to see.Plenty of effort has evidently gone into giving this unit its aesthetic mojo, but the bits on the inside will have most impact on the sound — and removing the lid reveals a similarly lavish attention to detail. The pots protruding through the front panel are revealed to be ALPS rk27 types, for example, and the transformers are by Carnhill. These transformers are not necessarily technically 'better' than other designs: rather, they have a certain sound that some people like. There are several other high-end audio transformer manufacturers, such as Sowter, Cinemag and Lundahl, and each creates a number of transformer designs that will all sound different, according to the materials used and the manufacturing process. The initial goal of transformer manufacturers was to achieve galvanic isolation of an electrical circuit without significant changes to the audio signal (see Hugh Robjohns' review of the ART DTI transformer isolator for more on that), but while all hit the target of isolation, many coloured the sound in subtle ways, some pleasing to the ears of some people (though not necessarily of others!), and some less so. It's possible to overthink all this, of course, but Carnhill have developed a reputation for pleasant-sounding transformers, and Lindell has clearly arrived at this choice for reasons of sonic preference.
Unfortunately, quality costs, and the various component choices contribute to a price for the 17X that isn't for the faint-hearted. When I asked Tobias about the lofty asking price of this compressor relative to the Slate Pro Dragon, another augmented 1176 design that I'd perceived to be his main competition — it didn't bother him, simply because he believes his compressor to be better than its competitors: "I can only say that every single component I use is more expensive... It's an all ultra-high-quality unit, hence the higher price." There was no arguing with that logic, so my next job was to find out whether this higher cost was justified by the unit's performance.
On Test
I mentioned earlier that I was loaned a pair of 17Xs. This was because the 17X, like the 1176, is a mono device, and I wanted the chance to try it out on the stereo drum bus (a favourite application of mine for the 1176), as well as on individual sources. I patched them both (via Sonic Core A16 Ultra converters) directly into my DAW test project, which contains a number of single sources and mixes that I regularly use to test and compare plug-ins and outboard gear. Unfortunately, I didn't have a hardware 1176 to hand, but I had recently conducted a number of listening tests comparing various revisions of the 1176 with several plug-in and hardware variations on the same theme, used on a drum bus, and so had some audio files that I could use as a useful point of comparison.
The first thing to note is that on all sources the familiar FET compression character of the 1176, with a hint of pleasing distortion, was clearly audible. The second is that, particularly when used on those sources with plenty of LF and low mid-range information to work on, such as bass, drums, guitar, and male vocals, I could clearly discern the enriching sonic effect of the Carnhill transformers, even when there was no gain reduction. I'd describe this as a pleasant, musically pleasing thickening of the sound. It's also a sound that, despite the deserved plaudits, I still don't think plug-in manufacturers have quite nailed. While I'm happy enough working entirely in the box, I'm reminded what I like about using outboard gear, and how much room most plug-in designs still have for improvement, the moment I run a signal through something like this! A final general point I'll reiterate is that the more restricted menu of attack and release settings wasn't a problem in practice.
My first subjective test was on a stereo drum mix, to ascertain how the 17X would behave on the drum bus — and it was here that, in purely practical terms, I encountered my first frustration, because two units cannot be linked for stereo operation. To be fair to Lindell, the two 17Xs seemed very closely matched, so it was a simple matter to match levels and all the side-chain control settings. But I could still hear a little shifting of the phantom centre image from time to time, as the two devices responded to their different side-chain signals. There are plenty of people happy working with this configuration (and Lindell's productions certainly demand more respect than my own!), but if you're one of those who's bothered by this, you'll probably find, like me, that you prefer using the a pair of 17X compressors on the Mid and Side (M/S) signals, rather than the left and right. That's easy enough to set up, and I actually often prefer M/S compression, given the greater control that this affords over a stereo signal — but it does still seem a shame that on a no-expense-spared device like this there's no on-board provision for linking two devices.
The rear panel features a subtle hint as to what genre this device is mainly intended for!As I said, though, that's a point purely about the practical application of these devices. Sonically, on the other hand, I had absolutely no complaints. Quite the opposite, in fact. I've mentioned the impact of the FET element and the transformers on the sound, but the controls available meant that I could access the amount of compression and character I required very quickly. The settings were clearly visible at a glance, thanks to the choice of switches and clear legending on the front panel. Both the high-pass side-chain filters and the wet/dry blend controls usefully extended the range of sounds available, enabling me to achieve anything from subtle compression, with a low ratio and with the blend control backed off to mostly dry, through to over-crushed big-beat drums, by way of pretty much anything you'd want from a 'character' compressor in a rock/pop mix. When I say subtle, note that I don't mean transparent, as the overall sonic imprint of this compressor's analogue circuitry was very much evident at all times. As is so often the case with well-designed hardware, I noticed that if I wanted to, I was able to raise the overall level of the drums way beyond what I could achieve with any plug-in, and all without clipping my converters. Whether that's important, or whether that's a sound you like, will be very much down to you!
So happy was the experience of using the 17X on the drum bus that I decided to try them on the mix bus. That's something I rarely do with the 1176 unless I've got it set up as a parallel effect, because I find that with its lowest 4:1 ratio, it's not gentle enough. However, I suspected that the 17X would be up to the job, given the control afforded by the mix and side-chain filter controls. I fired up a large multitrack project, began mixing into the pair of Lindells in an M/S configuration, and found myself aiming for roughly 3dB of gain reduction on each. Again, the Lindells seemed to control things effortlessly, and I was pleased with the result. But how can I best convey the experience of using them in this role? You could say that it was rather like having a hybrid compressor, with the basic character of an 1176 but with a slightly Neve-like feel, which, presumably can be attributed to the Carnhill 'iron'. I often found that I was rather thrilled by the result of 'crushing' things just that little bit more than I usually would on the bus, and then backing off the blend control to around a 50:50 wet/dry mix.
I also tried treating various mono sources, and while I wouldn't necessarily want to treat every single track with the same compressor, I'd probably be able to press the 17X into service on pretty much anything. I won't dwell on the details too long, as I'm otherwise going to be in danger of repeating myself — because the same features (the sound of the transformers and analogue electronics, the side-chain filter, and the wet/dry blend control) seemed to win through every time. As in the mix-bus role, these features made the 17X very usable on sources I'd not usually process with the 1176, including acoustic guitar. I was very happy using it on bass, kick and snare, too, and the subtle distortions imparted by the circuitry were particularly pleasing on distorted electric guitar and on vocals, especially the low-mids of male and the breathier regions of female vocal tracks.
Do I like Lindell Audio's 17X? Yes, absolutely. In fact, if I were pushed to choose one compressor to add to my rack and budget wasn't limited, I'd probably opt for one of these. Or, rather, a pair of these. That's partly down to my own taste, of course, but I'd expect anyone mixing material in the pop, rock or urban genres to enjoy this processor. If you're after a clean, clinical compressor, or a transparent mastering unit, it's probably not going to meet your needs (although I'd still urge you to investigate what it can do).
I'm left with only two criticisms, neither of which are major. The first is the lack of stereo linking, which is not an insurmountable problem, and the second is the price: it's a professional price tag for a professional product. You have to respect Lindell for choosing not to cut corners in this design, and if you've set aside a substantial pile of cash for a great compressor, I strongly recommend checking out the 17X.
The 1176 itself is obviously an alternative in some respects, but all versions of it lack the signal and side-chain filtering and the parallel-compression functionality. What strikes me as being the nearest competitor is the Slate Pro Audio Dragon, which is another mono parallel compressor, featuring side-chain filtering and more besides. The Dragon is rather less expensive (albeit not exactly cheap) and is probably a little more versatile than the 17X, but it offers a rather different sonic character — and I have to say that I did prefer the 17X in this respect. Setting aside the job of compression for a moment, and thinking in terms solely of the sonic effect of the analogue circuitry, you could consider the various classic designs from Neve, such as their 2254/R.
Offers so much more than an 1176.
No expense spared on quality of components.
Offers both direct and mix outputs.
No external side-chain input.
Can't be linked for stereo operation.
The Lindell Audio 17X is a beautiful-sounding compressor that's reminiscent of the classic Urei 1176, but offers a few useful extra features that open up a much broader tonal palette, ranging from subtle parallel effects to full-on drum-loop slamming.
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Facetune App – Review
February 26, 2014 February 22, 2014 Curt Blanchard iPad, iPad mini, iPhone, Photography, Review Leave a comment
Facetune app for iPad/iPhone
Developer: Lightricks, Ltd.
Facetune for iPhone: $2.99
Facetune for iPad: $3.99
Applications for portrait retouching on the Mac are often complex and quite expensive. Apps that perform similar functions in iOS are less expensive (or free) but usually aren't as capable. A new competitor, Facetune, is now available for the iPhone and for the iPad.
Retouching by touch doesn't seem as if it would be sufficiently accurate but with Facetune, you'll be surprised. The results are quite good. Facetune incorporates a wide range of tools. Each has adjustable brush sizes and intensities. A few of the tools are familiar: blemish removal, redeye reduction, and teeth whitening. Some of the other tools are effective when used for skin smoothing, detail emphasizing, make-up application, patching, and toning. Each tool has guides and a video tutorial to help you understand its uses.
Facetune includes a Defocus tool allowing the user to emphasize the subject while throwing the background areas out of focus. There are a number of filters that can be applied to the finished portrait and dozens of frames for presenting your finished masterpieces. There is a tool for structural reshaping: cheekbone raising, jowl reduction, smile widening, etc. I tend to prefer "natural" retouching such as a little smoothing or tooth whitening. Altering a subject's whole facial structure seems wrong to me, but with Facetune, it can be done.
The key to retouching on a small screen is the ability to pinch, zoom and pan effectively. Facetune does this very well. Once you zoom in close to an eye, for example, it's quite easy to brighten the whites and accentuate the highlight.
I'm impressed with Facetune. It's a pity that you have to buy separate iPhone and iPad versions, but I assume each requires different tool layouts because the screen proportions differ. Since iDevice cameras are fast replacing the usual point and shooters, it makes sense to have a good portrait enhancement app in your iArsenal.
MyMac Review rating is 9 out of 10.
Facetune, Lightricks, Retouching
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This week, we had the privilege of chatting to Muneesh Wadhwa, the founder of Humanity In Business. After years of working across a variety of industries, he really began to realise the reoccurring theme of employee disengagement. Humanity In Business say that in a global survey, only 13% of employees are actually engaged at work and that's a huge number. As a company their mission is to help companies achieve 100% employee engagement.
Muneesh believes that in order to do this we need leaders that are authentic and real, and who know their values and purpose.
In this episode, we talk about the character of a human-centered leader and what that looks like, how conscious leadership is revolutionising the businesses they're in, and also, how we can combat this lack of engagement in the workplace.
We hope you enjoy this conversation and take something from it.


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Alonso de Toro (n. España), fue un escritor místico católico, del primer tercio del siglo XVI.

Publicó las siguientes obras: Tratado de tribulación devoto, spiritual e muy provechoso (Sevilla, 1530); Trabajo de vicios, Coplas hechas (Sevilla, 1530 y 1532).

Referencias
Suárez, Juan. Enciclopedia Espasa

Religiosos de España del siglo XVI
Escritores de España del siglo XVI
Escritores católicos
Católicos de España


We have 3 IR spots in our league so these issues don't come up, would highly recommend trying to get those for next year.
The year he had an elbow issue, hence why this isn't surprising. I guess I don't consider injuries a bust year. A bust year to me are guys like Marcus Stroman and Danny Duffy.


It isn't often these days that I get time to shoot just for me. When I was first learning photography, I immersed myself in all sorts of weekly creativity challenges, 365 projects, workshops and just everyday practice. It was fun to be creative, learn new techniques and shoot what I love. Nowadays, I am almost always shooting for clients, and to be honest, when I'm not shooting or editing client images, I rarely feel like picking up my camera. While I am still learning and growing - a ton - with every session - I sometimes miss just shooting for me, from the heart. So these few images I'm sharing today are the ones I've taken over the past week or so that were just for fun, just for me and just from my heart and soul. They may not suit everyone's style and that's okay by me. I love them anyway.
Each one is beautiful Melissa and captures an emotion.


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Guido I. Brisebarre († nach 1148) war Herr von Beirut im Königreich Jerusalem.

Guido Brisebarre war der Bruder von Walter I. Brisebarre, der seit 1125/26 Herr von Beirut war.

1127 sandte ihn König Balduins II. von Jerusalem, zusammen mit dem Templer-Meister Hugo von Payns und Wilhelm I. von Bures, nach Frankreich, um einen Ehemann für die Thronerbin von Jerusalem, Balduins Tochter Melisende zu finden. Im Frühjahr 1129 reisten sie mit dem Grafen Fulko V. von Anjou ins Heilige Land zurück, wo sie im Mai eintrafen.

Spätestens 1138 unterzeichnete Guido als Herr von Beirut. Vermutlich war sein Bruder Walter zuvor gestorben und Guido ihm nachgefolgt.

1148 nahm er am Konzil von Akkon teil.

Er hatte vermutlich zwei Söhne, die ihn nach seinem Tod beerbten:
 Walter II. Brisebarre († 1169), Herr von Beirut, später Templer;
 Guido II. Brisebarre († vor 1164), Herr von Beirut.

Aufgrund fehlender Primärquellen über den Tod Guidos I. und seines Bruders Walter II., wird teilweise auch die Ansicht vertreten, dass es sich jeweils bei Guido I. und Guido II., sowie bei Walter I. und Walter II. um identische Personen handelt. Diese wären dann gemeinsam Herren von Beirut gewesen.

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ADAMS, NATHAN (1869–1966). Nathan Adams, banker and civic leader, was born on November 26, 1869, near Pulaski, Tennessee, the youngest of seven children of Nathan and Susan (Pankey) Adams. His father, a major in the Confederate Army and a lawyer, died when Adams was five years old, and afterward Mrs. Adams taught at Giles College to support her family. Adams attended public schools in Pulaski, but a foot injury caused him to quit Giles College after a year, and the financial needs of his family prevented his return. He began his business career as cash boy in a general store and later became a runner for the People's National Bank of Pulaski, manager of a bookstore, and bookkeeper for both the Giles National Bank and a grocery store.
When Adams adeptly prepared a statement for a family friend, who was also treasurer of the Texas and Pacific Railway, the friend invited him to come to Dallas. In December 1887 Adams borrowed seventy-five dollars to make the trip and soon thereafter began work as an agent in the auditing department of the railroad. By the next year, however, he had returned to banking as a utility and relief man at the National Exchange Bank. During a series of mergers he rose swiftly through the ranks. He became the president of the First National Bank in Dallas, the largest bank in the South, in 1929. In 1944 he became chairman of the board. He retired in 1950 at the age of eighty as honorary board chairman.
Adams was sometimes called the "dean of Texas bankers." He is credited with developing programs that averted disasters for the Texas cotton industry in 1907 and for the Texas wool industry in 1931. He also helped build the independent oil and gas industry in the state by accepting proved underground oil reserves as collateral for the financing of large-scale production. He secured the location of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas as well as the Texas Centennial Central Exposition, the board of which he chaired. Accordingly, he has been credited with the regional financial preeminence of Dallas. Adams was president of the Texas Bankers Association (1913–14), a member of the executive council of the American Bankers Association, a Hoover appointee to the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, and a director of the United States Chamber of Commerce (1931–32).
During World War I he managed the sale of treasury certificates worth $75 million. During World War II he headed a Texas sales campaign that totaled over $4.5 billion worth of government securities. He was instrumental in the founding of the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children, served on its board for over twenty-five years, and collected more than $1 million in contributions. He was a Shriner and Scottish Rite Mason.
Adams married Elizabeth Kirtley Ardinger on November 4, 1891; they had one daughter. He was a member of the Episcopal Church. Although a conservative Democrat, he opposed prohibition. He lived at the Scottish Rite Hospital in failing health for the last four years of his life and died there on June 17, 1966.
Dallas Morning News, April 20, 1939, June 18, 1966. Dallas Times Herald, April 23, 1930, June 19, 1966.
Handbook of Texas Online, Joan J. Perez, "ADAMS, NATHAN," accessed April 20, 2019, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fad06.


The end of an era in the East End of London is drawing closer as West Ham United have sold Upton Park to Galliard Homes.
Club officials confirmed that West Ham and the property developer had reached an agreement which will see the creation of 700 homes on the site of the Hammers' current home ground. West Ham are moving to the Olympic Stadium in 2016 leaving Upton Park redundant but the club are keen to support the area of the capital in which it was founded by providing new housing.
The Hammers are aiming to replicate the scheme adopted by Arsenal when the Premier League side left Highbury for the Emirates Stadium in 2006. The Gunners redeveloped their old stadium into Highbury Square which consisted of flats and green space but the landscape of Highbury was still maintained despite all the fittings being removed.
Karren Brady, West Ham's vice-chairman, explained that the decision to choose Galliard Homes to take on the project was due to being a London company. Ms Brady noted that the club wanted remain true to its East London origins and by joining forces with a company that has roots in the region will help deliver the vision that satisfies the club's supporters.
"The deal demonstrates that we have been true to our word by securing the regeneration of two areas of East London through our move to the Olympic Stadium in 2016. We are confident that West Ham United fans will be excited about their vision and the way they plan to respect more than 100 years of West Ham history at Upton Park," Ms Brady added.
West Ham was named as the preferred bidder for the Olympic Stadium in 2013, managing to beat off competition from the likes of Tottenham Hotspur and Leyton Orient. Balfour Beatty was recently named as the company tasked with converting the ground from athletics use into one suitable for football.


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The 10 Best Apps for Managing Podcasts on Linux
Ivana Isadora Devcic January 22, 2016 22-01-2016 11 minutes
Podcasts aren't just another fad. They can keep you company during a long commute, play in the background while you're cleaning, and you can even use them to learn foreign languages How I Finally Learned a Different Language. And You Can Too. How I Finally Learned a Different Language. And You Can Too. No single language learning app is the magic wand. The secret to learning a new language is a blended solution. With desire and motivation you too can learn any foreign language. Read More . Listening to podcasts on mobile devices The 8 Best Podcast Players for Android The 8 Best Podcast Players for Android Want to listen to podcasts on your Android phone or tablet? Let us show you which apps to use. Read More has become a norm, but it's much more practical to manage dozens of podcast subscriptions on the computer.
Podcast managers or aggregators, podcast clients, podcatchers – these are all names for the type of software you'll need. This application should be able to subscribe to new podcasts, notify you of updates, download new episodes, archive (or remove) old episodes, and categorize your podcasts. Generally speaking, the difference between podcast clients is in the details, which usually refers to the degree of automatization they provide.
As a Linux user, you won't have too much choice, since there are only a handful of podcast clients. However, nearly every modern music player for Linux 3 Fresh & Lightweight Music Players For Enjoying Your MP3s on Linux 3 Fresh & Lightweight Music Players For Enjoying Your MP3s on Linux If you're a Linux user who loves music, you've probably noticed that audio players come in all shapes and sizes, from iTunes alternatives to lightweight apps. Which lightweight music player should you choose? Read More can serve as a podcatcher, so you don't have to worry. Users who prefer a single app for managing and playing podcasts can rely on regular music players. Those who want a dedicated podcast manager can choose from apps that support both podcatching and playback, apps that only collect podcasts but require an external player, and quick command-line apps and scripts that fetch new episodes.
Let's see what our options are.
Podcatchers
Vocal might be the most beautiful podcast client for Linux. Originally designed for Elementary OS, it's now available for Ubuntu and Ubuntu-based distros, Fedora and other RPM-based distros, plus Arch Linux.
Vocal's interface is simple. There is the control bar on the top where you can access the Settings dialog, the main area with all your podcasts, and the sidebar where you can find information about each episode. Here you can also download episodes, mark them as played, and delete them (either one-by-one or in bulk). You can subscribe to a new podcast by pasting a link to the podcast feed, or import multiple subscriptions from an OPML file.
Pros and cons: Vocal can play both audio and video podcasts, automatically check for and download new episodes in the background, and remove old episodes from your hard drive. It can remember where you paused each episode so that you can quickly resume whenever you want. The only flaw I can think of is the lack of support for the iTunes podcast store. There are some minor issues with the interface; for example, it doesn't show the size or duration of episodes, but this doesn't interfere with Vocal's podcatching abilities.
gPodder
Once the go-to podcast client for Linux (and we devoted an entire article Manage Your Podcasts Easier With The gPodder App Manage Your Podcasts Easier With The gPodder App Looking for the best way to manage and sync your favorite podcasts on Linux? Stop looking. With a simple user interface, built-in syncing to iPod, MTP and file-system based devices, and an online service for... Read More to it), over the years, gPodder introduced new features to stay in the podcatcher game. Today it's available for Linux, Windows, and OS X, with an Android app and an online podcast directory called gpodder.net, where you can create an account and discover new podcasts.
gPodder's strength lies in its Podcasts > Preferences dialog where you can tweak pretty much everything. You can set the frequency of checking for new episodes and remove both finished and unfinished episodes automatically. New podcasts are added by pasting the URLs into the Subscribe dialog, or by importing subscriptions from iTunes and OPML files.
Pros and cons: gPodder can create podcast playlists and sync them to media devices such as MP3 players. It features a time-stretching option to make podcast playback slower or faster. Best of all, it lets you follow YouTube, Soundcloud, and Vimeo feeds. However, gPodder can't play anything on its own—you'll have to open audio and video podcasts in an external application.
If these two apps don't do it for you, check out PenguinTV (which we previously reviewed 3 Lightweight Podcast Managers For Linux 3 Lightweight Podcast Managers For Linux Read More ) with support for video podcasts and iTunes. You can also try Miro, an all-round multimedia manager and player Miro: An All-In-One Application To Manage All Of Your Media [Cross-Platform] Miro: An All-In-One Application To Manage All Of Your Media [Cross-Platform] We have a lot of media that we need to keep track of before we forget that we even have them. We're also on a constant need for new, fresh media. Ideally, it'd be great... Read More .
Music Players with Podcast Support
You'd be hard-pressed to find something that VLC can't do. This popular and powerful multimedia player 6 Cool VLC Tips & Tricks You Might Not Know About 6 Cool VLC Tips & Tricks You Might Not Know About VideoLan's VLC media player is a real box of tricks and is just as effective on a Windows operating system as it is on Mac or Linux. Those of you who are already using VLC... Read More provides basic support for podcast management, so if it's already your player of choice, you might as well use it to avoid installing extra apps. The Podcasts option is available under the Internet section of your Playlist. To add new podcasts, click the plus sign next to the Podcasts option and paste the link to each podcast you want to subscribe to. Podcasts appear as entries in the sidebar, and selecting them shows a list of available episodes on the right. You can download episodes manually, sort them, and create custom playlists.
Pros and cons: VLC can play both video and audio podcasts. However, it's not the most useful podcatcher: there's no integrated podcast discovery feature, no options to import podcast subscriptions, and it can't automatically check for new episodes or download them for you. You can't rely on VLC to remember which episodes you've watched, so if you're a heavy podcast consumer, you might have to look for other solutions.
Clementine is a fantastic music player for Linux, so it shouldn't surprise you that it's also a great podcatcher. You'll find the Podcasts option in the Internet tab. Right-click it to open the Add podcast dialog, where you can manually enter podcast URLs, import subcriptions from OPML files, or browse podcasts that Clementine pulls from BBC, gpodder.net and iTunes.
Clementine's Preferences dialog contains a section for podcasts, where you can set how often it should check for new episodes and where to download them. Clementine can automatically delete played episodes after a specified amount of time. Your podcasts will show up in the Internet tab as expandable lists, each with the total number of episodes in parentheses. Here you can organize episodes into playlists, download or delete individual episodes, or unsubscribe from podcasts. You can mark every episode as new or listened, which is helpful for keeping track.
Pros and cons: Clementine can update all podcasts at once or just refresh the ones you select. It can also check for, and download, new episodes automatically. The downside is that it doesn't support video podcasts, since it's only an audio player.
Guayadeque is something of a hidden gem among Linux music players 4 Linux Music Players That Deserve Your Attention Now 4 Linux Music Players That Deserve Your Attention Now Which Linux music player is the best? We compare four excellent music players you may not know about. Read More . It's lightweight, yet with enough features to rival the likes of Amarok and Quod Libet. There's tagging and labeling, radio stream recording, Last.fm scrobbling, crossfading… There are static and dynamic playlists with "smart play" mode based on your current playlist. Last but not least, there is podcast support.
You can add new podcasts manually or pick them from the podcast directory. Use keywords to narrow down the results. The Preferences dialog lets you choose how often Guayadeque should check for new episodes, as well as when to remove old podcast episodes.
Pros and cons: Guayadeque can automatically download new podcast episodes according to your criteria (for example, if an episode contains certain keywords). It can also protect old episodes from being deleted (just uncheck the Allow delete old items option in the Podcast Channel Editor). On the other hand, Guayadeque can't play video podcasts, and it used to be quite buggy. The latest version came out two years ago, so you can't really hope for quick updates in case you encounter a severe bug.
Cantata is a modern, feature-packed frontend for MPD (Music Player Daemon). This means it can't work without MPD installed and running in the background. If you need a feature, chances are Cantata has it: from tag editing, dynamic playlists, and ReplayGain to support for scrobbling, audio CD ripping, and online services like Soundcloud, Shoutcast, and TuneIn. The best thing about Cantata is its flexible interface. When it comes to podcatching, Cantata is very similar to Clementine in terms of what it can do.
Adding a new podcast is as simple as entering its URL, but you can also pick from hundreds of podcasts available in the directories scanned by Cantata, including gpodder.net, iTunes, NPR, and BBC. You new podcasts will appear in a list in the Online > Podcasts section. Cantata can automatically check for new episodes and download just the latest one, a selected number of episodes, or all of them. You can "mix" podcasts by creating your own playlists with individual episodes from any podcast.
Pros and cons: Cantata's context menu is the fastest, most practical way to manage your podcasts. Right-click a podcast or an episode, and you'll get options to download episodes, check for new ones, mark them as new or as listened, and unsubscribe from a podcast. Again, just like Clementine, Cantata can't play video podcasts, and it doesn't offer much information about each episode.
Xix Music Player
Xix is a relatively unknown Linux music player with a decent set of features, some of which are audio CD ripping, recording online radio playback, batch-renaming and tagging, an equalizer, and of course, podcast support. Xix comes with a list of podcast URLs to get you started, but you can just add your own subscriptions (and delete the predefined ones). Selecting a podcast in the Podcasts tab displays its episodes in the main area.
If you want to download podcast episodes, you'll have to do it manually by selecting an episode and clicking the almost invisible Download Podcast button on the right side of the playlist.
Pros and cons: Xix provides basic podcatching functionality and makes it easy to add and remove podcast subscriptions. Sadly, there doesn't seem to be an option to automatically check for new episodes, download multiple episodes, or mark them as listened. All in all, Xix feels like a work in progress, but it might still interest those who love trying out new apps.
If you like the idea of combining a music player and a podcast client, but don't fancy the suggestions above, consider Banshee Banshee 2.0 – A Comprehensive Media Player, Streamer & Podcast Tool [Linux] Banshee 2.0 – A Comprehensive Media Player, Streamer & Podcast Tool [Linux] The Banshee media player was first released in early 2005 and has since come on leaps and bounds. Probably the closest thing Linux has to iTunes, Banshee comes with an integrated music store, Internet radio,... Read More , Rhythmbox Play & Manage Your Music Collection With Rhythmbox [Linux] Play & Manage Your Music Collection With Rhythmbox [Linux] Music is a way of life for a lot of people, and their music collections often reflect that to a massive degree. We all enjoy our music, and should be able to keep tabs with... Read More , or Amarok Control The Music Your Way With Amarok [Linux] Control The Music Your Way With Amarok [Linux] Music players come a dime a dozen on any operating system, and it's easy to lose sight of those that are actually worth something. Amarok is probably one of the most feature-rich music players I've... Read More . All three are great music players with plenty of features.
Command-Line Tools for Podcasts
Podfox
Podfox is a powerful little Python script that can update and download podcast episodes for you. First you'll have to set a directory for downloads and decide how many episodes Podfox should download at once. Then you can subscribe to podcasts by providing a link to their feed. You can give every podcast a custom name, and update them one by one or all at once.
Pros and cons: Podfox is easy to use, as you only need to remember a few short commands. Although it's a command-line application, Podfox displays a neat list of your podcasts. It can show a list of all available episodes for each podcast and remember which ones you already downloaded. However, there aren't any scheduling options, so you'll either have to check for updates manually or experiment with bash scripting. Also, you won't get any detailed information about podcast episodes.
Podcatcher
Even if you're not usually a fan of command-line apps, you should give Podcatcher a chance. This versatile app can download both video and audio podcasts. Like gPodder, it can generate playlists from your podcast episodes for other apps and devices. Podcatcher can import subscriptions from an OPML file as well as from iTunes PCAST files.
The best thing about Podcatcher is its range of options for downloading. You can control the total size of downloaded episodes, and Podcatcher will clean up old ones to make room for more. It offers several downloading presets or "strategies", so you can retrieve just one episode or all episodes, everything released after (or before) a particular date, or just those episodes you haven't downloaded before. You can also filter episodes by custom keywords before downloading them.
Pros and cons: Podcatcher can read options from a file, so you don't have to type the same commands every time you want to use it. Moreover, it has an integrated torrent client in case any of your podcasts comes in that format. As you probably expected, it can only download content, but not play it. Also, it might be tricky to install if you're a beginner, as it requires Ruby.
Greg is an interactive podcatcher for the console that uses simple, straightforward commands. You can use it to subscribe to podcasts, list currently available episodes, and download as many episodes as you want. Like Podcatcher, Greg relies on an application state file that "remembers" what you already downloaded. Old episodes can be removed manually.
Greg can download audio and video content, but the latter needs to be enabled in the configuration file. Since you're already there, you can check out other options, like filters and keywords for downloading only those episodes that contain them. The app's GitHub page offers a detailed guide, explaining how to get started with Greg.
Pros and cons: Greg can automatically add tags to your podcast episodes, so you'll know what you're listening to when you play them in an external app. It's easy to use, even for a beginner, but it can't do much automatically (unless you're willing to bring scripts and cron jobs into play).
If you've settled on one of these Linux podcatchers, you can now start discovering new podcasts. Matthew put together a nice round-up of recommendations for Linux-related podcasts 7 Linux Podcasts You Need to Listen To 7 Linux Podcasts You Need to Listen To There are a lot of podcasts about Linux out there. But which ones are worth listening to? You're going to find something worth listening to in this list of seven download-worthy Linux podcasts. Read More , but we also have a huge list with best podcasts of 2015 The 20 Best Podcasts of 2015: As Recommended by MakeUseOf The 20 Best Podcasts of 2015: As Recommended by MakeUseOf Have you ever wondered what your favorite MakeUseOf authors listen to when they want to learn something new, hear a good story, or simply be entertained? This article means you need wonder no more. Read More and some great podcasts about productivity Let's Talk Productivity: 7 Podcasts You Should Listen To For Working Awesomely Let's Talk Productivity: 7 Podcasts You Should Listen To For Working Awesomely Let us talk about productivity -- or let these seven life hackers talk about the little things we can do to work awesomely. Plug in...sit back...and listen. Read More . Be sure to check our suggestions for gaming podcasts Attention, Gamers! Here Are the 10 Best Gaming Podcasts Attention, Gamers! Here Are the 10 Best Gaming Podcasts Video games were one of the first mediums to go all in on podcasts, and there are now a wealth of gaming podcasts from which to choose. Here are 10 of the best. Read More and those that cater to bookworms Listen Up, Book Lovers: 10 of the Best Podcasts for Bibliophiles Listen Up, Book Lovers: 10 of the Best Podcasts for Bibliophiles If you're always on the lookout for great book recommendations, these podcasts will keep your "to read" list full, and offer some insightful commentary into the lives of authors everywhere. Read More .
And if you ever wish to record your own podcast, remember that there are Linux tools for that How to Easily Record an Audio or Video Podcast on Linux How to Easily Record an Audio or Video Podcast on Linux Podcasting is a media-based activity, so Linux users might think that podcasting is best done on Windows or OS X. While true historically, it's a myth we're happy to dispel! Read More , too.
Do you know of any other podcast clients for Linux? Which ones do you use? While you're here, why not tell us about your favorite podcasts? We'd love to read your suggestions in the comments.
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Want to throw in Pocket Casts as a mention, its not free, but it works just as great in the web version as it does as an Android app.
jesusguevarautomotriz
I can not believe they have not done a full mention With screenshoot mentioned Miro -. Free, open-source music and video player, as one of the best options to manage audio and video podcasts in Linux, Windows and Mac For me it is my favorite, it is indispensable.
Ivana Isadora Devcic
Thanks for the comment! I did mention Miro right at the beginning of the list, but I didn't go into too much detail since we already have an entire article about Miro and all the awesome features it has. :) You can check out that article if you're interested, I linked to it in the text.
I understand you perfectly. But I think that Miro deserved picture screenchoot because it is as good as Vocal, but for me it's better. I understand that already had an article about Miro, but a wide mention serves to remind its validity and usefulness and power. The full article on Miro 2012 may seem outdated to some newcomer.
Amos Batto
Miro is not available in Debian 8 (jessie) and later. Checking the Miro website, it also appears to not be available in recent versions of Ubuntu. For all practical purposes, the majority of Linux users can no longer use it.
Banshee does podcasts quite well and can play audio and video with the app.
Huh, I didn't know Banshee could play video...that's great. Thanks for sharing! :)
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