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Feature project: Bellingham Marriott/SpringHill Suites
Commercial Concrete, Concrete Construction Careers, Concrete Foundations, Concrete Retaining Walls, Concrete Sidewalks, Pervious Concrete
Whatcom County's recent hotel boom hasn't exactly been a secret. Hundreds of new hotel rooms have been added to the area in the past few years. More than 800 hotel rooms have been added to the county in the past four years.
Custom Concrete Contracting has been proud to be part of the growth in Bellingham.
Most recently, CCC crews helped with a concrete curbing project at Marriott TownePlace Suites on Northwest Avenue, next to the Marriott SpringHill Suites.
As always, the crewmembers at Custom Concrete were proud to be hired as subcontractors on a job. Remember when that section of Northwest Drive was little more than weedy, overgrown lots? Now it's full of thriving hotels and small businesses.
Related: Custom Concrete built the traffic circles on Northwest Avenue in Bellingham.
The Marriott TownePlace Suites added 83 units to Whatcom County's hotel inventory. Together with the neighboring Marriott, the two hotels total 205 units.
For this small job, Custom Concrete installed parking lot curbing ― roughly 64 linear feet in all. The TownePlace Suites first opened in 2015; the work done recently by Custom Concrete helped beautify the hotel's street appeal by installing curbing along landscaped areas in front of the hotel.
Whether it's a small job like this one, or a large job like Bellingham's new Eleanor Apartments senior housing community, for which Custom Concrete installed structural concrete and an underground detention vault, CCC can handle it all. We're a go-to contractor in Bellingham, Ferndale, Lynden and Whatcom County for commercial construction projects.
Other major work we've done recently include the Maple Street Apartments in Bellingham, for which we built walls, sidewalks, stairs, curbs and more.
Our Bellingham concrete contracting company is often the subcontractor of choice on local commercial work because our aim is to do the work right, the first time. We train, test and certify our staff through the American Concrete Institute. We currently employ five ACI-certified finishers, four certified pervious concrete installers and one certified technician.
Because one of our major goals is to help people make a career of concrete, the level of experience among our crews is consistently high.
Whether we're working on a small curbing project for a major international hotel chain or completing subcontracting work on a new apartment building in town, our concrete finishing crews use their expertise and experience to complete the jobs on time and on budget.


WordTornado is the word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a game board. The words are formed across and down in crossword fashion and must appear in a standard dictionary. Try to make use of the different word and letter values to score even more points. The winner is the one who has accumulated most points by the end of the game.
1. Place the tiles on the game board to form a word.
2. The first word must be placed with one of its letters on the star in the middle of the board.
3. Create new words by linking these words vertically or horizontally with already placed tiles.
4. The game ends when all tiles are placed, or when both players pass a turn two rounds in a row. You can pass a turn by pressing the play button without placing a word on the board.
- Word Quality: A meter which indicates the strength of the word you want to play.
- Tile Bag: A view inside the tile bag so you'll be able to see which tiles are left.
- Word Score: A chance to view how many points your word will score before you place it permanently on the board.


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Assume we have two neutral plates a small distance away from each other. We place charge Q on one plate, leaving the other plate uncharged. We then measure a potential difference V across the plates. Some bright student notes the ratio of Q and V is not the value of the capacitance. What is the value of the capacitance?
So I understand that capacitance is a geometric property of the object and what it is made of. But for this question I think that since only one of the plates is charged, therefore the Q in the equation would really only be Q/2 thus the ratio would be C = Q/2V.


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Gauging the toll remote instruction has taken on N.J. students
John Mooney, NJ Spotlight
Is remote learning robbing NJ students of grade-appropriate knowledge? (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
This story originally appeared on NJ Spotlight.
In the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic and with more New Jersey schools being forced to go to remote instruction, worries about so-called learning loss among students have become commonplace.
Most agree it's a concern: Will students suffer academically — and irreparably — during this extraordinary year?
But how to define that loss and, just as importantly, how to address whatever damage is done are proving far harder to agree upon.
That was evident Monday in a lively hearing of the state Senate Education Committee, where lawmakers heard testimony on a bill requiring the state to determine and examine what damage the pandemic has inflicted on student learning.
Few at the online hearing disagreed with the good intentions, but what was a bit unexpected was how the proposal met resistance from some expected allies about how to attain that goal.
State Sen. Teresa Ruiz (D-Essex), the influential chair of the committee, has pressed for the accounting and has called for the state Department of Education to complete a report that determines the level of potential loss in the past eight months. Her bill would require the department to report back to the Legislature within the next 30 days.
Ruiz said it shouldn't even require legislation.
"The (state Department of Education) should be doing this on their own accord," she said. "But when the administration is not doing this, the Legislature needs to step in."
Virtual school lets teachers see directly into students' lives. Here's what they're learning
Virtual learning has brought teachers into students' homes every day. But can that help them build relationships with students remotely?
But while in accord about the end, the state's main education groups representing teachers, administrators and school boards were far less in agreement about the means and the bill's short timeline.
One after another, representatives of the various groups raised concerns about how student performance — or the lack of performance — would be measured in the middle of a pandemic when even basic school operations have become a test.
"We need to balance this with the current reality on our schools," said Debra Bradley, lobbyist for the New Jersey Principals and Supervisors Association. "Our members tell us the top concerns right now is keeping our students safe."
A representative of New Jersey Education Association, the state's dominant teachers union, said it supported the idea but also didn't want "students and staff burdened" with additional tasks and assessments.
"We also worry about the term 'learning loss,' because it sounds like kids learned something and then lost it," said Francine Pfeffer, an NJEA lobbyist. "Unfinished learning or learning delay is a much better term for this."
But that touched a nerve with Ruiz, who has been most critical of the Murphy administration in addressing gaps in education during the pandemic. That includes technology access; 30,000-plus students are still without tools and internet access.
"Learning loss is extraordinarily real thing, and I will not move away from that," she responded to Pfeffer. "It does happen and it has happened."
Ruiz pressed on, saying the data on student performance is critical right now in gauging the impact of the pandemic, She noted that while other state departments have been collecting information, the education department has provided little.
"This should have started months ago," Ruiz said.
"We need to have that data, and as we know there will be only certain amount of money, how do we have a blueprint to bring every child up to speed?" she said.
"Let's have a reckoning with truth so it helps policy for every child," Ruiz said. "Not about punishment or withholding funds, but programs like summer extension. How do you have that discussion without collecting data."
'Too much too fast': Teachers union objects to Delaware schools' hybrid return
Even as the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage across Delaware, Gov. John Carney says schools have proven to be safe spaces for students and teachers.
Long ignored, private online schools see golden opportunity in pandemic
Cyber charters get the most attention, but there's a niche world of private online academies. Could they be having a moment?
Rural schools need help to make remote learning accessible to all
Countless children in small towns across are being robbed of their right to learn and develop, writes Edward Albert of the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools.

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History and Theory Experiments in the Swamps of New Jersey
February 27, 2009 in Archive, Cartography, Film/Television, History, preservation, Travelogues/Guides
The swamps at the edges of my childhood town in Bergen County, New Jersey were strange zones of muddy flats and reeds that ended in the Manhattan skyline. If you grew up in New Jersey and were not that interested in going to the mall, you probably went to the swamps. We "swamp kids" were metal-head teenagers, who thought "fun" involved transforming this landscape by whacking reeds, shoveling out trails and building hills. The swamps were viscous landscapes, where virginity was lost, D-batteries drained (playing awful music on tape decks), and road bikes shot up dusty hills. The swamps were places where the more normative, middle-class trajectory of suburban adolescence was momentarily suspended. It was a space I constantly considered as a kid, but have not thought about in a long time.
The swamps of New Jersey never appeared in recent and hilarious representations of New Jersey youth, primarily because they do not fit the narrative role that New Jersey often plays. The swaps were the furthest thing from the "malls" — spaces that typified aspects of New Jersey town life and that are endlessly contrasted to the more urbane Manhattan. The malls of Jersey appear in publications and writings, but the swamps do not. But despite the swamps invisibility, I have come across the swamps again in the most unexpected of places — an art practice, an essay, a film. What I never knew, was that adults also saw the swamps as spaces of transfiguration.
Here is Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt's video "Swamp," (1971) filmed in the New Jersey swamps of Bergen County. It completely captures the minimal flora and sounds of these landscapes.
In an interview Holt conveyed some thoughts about the film
"it deals with limitations of perception through the camera eye as Bob and I struggled through a muddy New Jersey swamp. Verbal direction cannot easily be followed as the reeds crash against the camera lens blocking vision and forming continuously shifting patterns, confusion ensues."
And Smithson added…"it's about deliberate obstructions or calculated aimlessness".
As Smithson and Holt wandered the swamps, the swamps were used as dumping grounds for building debris from Manhattan. As a child, my friends and i could watch trucks roll into the swamps and dump bricks and stones into mounds which we would then climb. It is only recently that I learned that the remains of Pennsylvania Station were dumped here. Architecture history buffs traverse the swamps looking for the remains of this and other famous New York City buildings.
In the past few years, I have come across the swamps again, as an aspect of post-structuralist urban theory. In the opening passages of his essay, "Anxious Landscapes", the architecture historian Antoine Picon recalls looking out of an airplane on his way into Newark airport and seeing a strange landscape neither wholly natural or human. Picon was viewing the swamps. His perception of the swamps begins this essay on architectural and technological history, concepts of nature, and the production of selfhood. The Anxious Landscape, as he labels it, can be seen in the New Jersey swamps, and in the visions of Piranesi, Boullée, and contemporary films, such as Blade Runner.
Within this landscape of anxiety (the swamp and related spaces), Holt, Smithson, the scavengers, and Picon all revel in the momentary disorientation. For Holt, Smithson and Picon, the contemplation (or navigation) of this type of space produces an alternative form of subjectivity. In Smithson and Holt's video, we witness a type of anti-explorer — a parody of geographical exploration. In Picon's essay, he also questions how one might navigate or map the anxious landscape without a corresponding transformation in the viewing subject. This is a form of landscape that demands a certain transformation in those that move through it. I suppose that was how I used the swamp, as a landscape in which to get a bit lost and to try to become something different.
The swamps occupy an interesting place in relation to New York City. It is relatively common practice around the world for swamps to be filled in to make them "more useful environments." As if left on their own, they would eventually bleed into our "used" spaces. The mention of Blade Runner is interesting too, because the book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep," discusses a similar concept to the invading uselessness, called Kipple. AND, ironically enough, their God-figure in that book, Mercer, is seen (through virtual reality) climbing a barren hill in – of all places – a dried up swampland.
All evidence that supports the idea that all "wasted" spaces are really the spaces of freedom and self-discovery.
good stuff. i enjoy reading.
dlgissen
Thanks Martin. I particularly like your last point: "'wasted' spaces are really the spaces of freedom and self-discovery." I plan on posting some "unused" dissertation material on another space that relates to that idea and the post above. But this space (mystery will be revealed soon!) operated within a much more publicly visible sphere. Thanks for stopping by.
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Abstract Ethnopharmacological relevance: Low molecular weight fucoidan (LMWF) was prepared from Laminaria japonica Areschoug, a popular seafood and medicinal plant consumed in Asia. Chinese have long been using it as a traditional medicine for curing hypertension and edema.
GB/T 7714 Liang, Zhengyang,Zheng, Yuanyuan,Wang, Jing,et al. Low molecular weight fucoidan ameliorates streptozotocin-induced hyper-responsiveness of aortic smooth muscles in type 1 diabetes rats[J]. JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY,2016,191:341-349.
APA Liang, Zhengyang.,Zheng, Yuanyuan.,Wang, Jing.,Zhang, Quanbin.,Ren, Shuang.,...&Luo, Dali.(2016).Low molecular weight fucoidan ameliorates streptozotocin-induced hyper-responsiveness of aortic smooth muscles in type 1 diabetes rats.JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY,191,341-349.
MLA Liang, Zhengyang,et al."Low molecular weight fucoidan ameliorates streptozotocin-induced hyper-responsiveness of aortic smooth muscles in type 1 diabetes rats".JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY 191(2016):341-349.


To which animal would you compare me? Europeans love to drink wine. I want you to call home now. Get ready to leave. He yielded the castle to the enemy. Oscar is going to come back. I've wanted to tell her that I love her for a long time now. Bob tried to speak to Anne, but he couldn't. You must be pretty rich. I was really frustrated.
I repair computers almost every day. The wood was very dark, and she could not help trembling from fear. I thought that Ned was kind. Speak when you are spoken to. She felt insecure about her future. If it were not for the snow, we could climb the mountain. You must look to your manners. That's what Shaw's trying to figure out right now. We wish to invite Peter to Japan in the near future. Stanley poked the ant hill with a stick.
No gain without pains. But the poor duckling, who had crept out of his shell last of all, and looked so ugly, was bitten and pushed and made fun of, not only by the ducks, but by all the poultry. Will he come home at six? I don't want Jakob going to your office. Is this amount inclusive of GST, or does it have to be added on? At first, I didn't like him. I've got to get him to help. I was losing balance. Its business is advancing quite well. I wish you could have come with me.
Where's the toothpaste? The plate is dirty. The child is opening the window even though his mother told him not to. Everyone is very excited. I still remember you. What's wrong with her? You're obviously in great shape. Just eat half! In the act of offering up his last prayer ere he made up his mind to float and be eaten, he saw a man look over the quarter of the brig : he raised both his hands ; he jumped himself up in the water, and, by the singularity of his motions fortunately attracted notice. Let's try one more time.
Towards evening a violent storm of rain came on, and the wind was so high that all the windows and doors in the old house shook and rattled. Rolf made me hurry. Rupert ought to go back to Boston. We almost froze to death. Is anyone around? Cancer patients often have to deal with debilitating bouts of nausea. It's so romantic. To gain time we took the plane. I'm a certified translator. Do you have a rewards card?
You have to audition to join the choir. You're probably too young to understand why Spock had to leave. Do me a favour and shut up! Robbin Jackson is from our Boston office. I'm very much aware of the danger. This is his opinion. He took a risk when he helped me. I cannot help wondering about the child. Stop following me. They granted his request.
I'll help you to the best of my ability. The governor's speech was published in the magazine. We'll never do that again. You are eating. Everything is going well with our plan. She's our neighbour. What does this mean for Australia? Have you ever argued with your manager? Jeanette and Tammy looked at each other and then back at John. I want Fletcher to hear your story.
Huey locked his sister in the closet. The skyscraper is expected to sink into the bog. I've met that girl before. Chip held a small flashlight in his left hand. It's sort of cool. She is gentle with children. Do you really not know? Erick is going to college in Boston. Except in special circumstances, anyone is allowed to enter the building. Give me some sugar, too.
You won't get rid of me that easily. It's a little presumptuous. Rabin asked Marguerite to pretend to be his girlfriend. Finish baking the pie. Why do you say one thing, and then go and do another? Please don't forget my name! She showed me a letter written in English. We should deny our children things too sweet. He doesn't make me laugh anymore. Sylvan is glowing.
Nobody answered the door. I can't find my purse. We are what we think. I'm not a fangirl. Do I turn left at the first stoplight? My husband usually leaves for work at 8 o'clock. Pratap is so stressed at the moment, he can't think straight. She stressed that she did it by herself. Joyce's at the door. Please ask him to come in. Don't forget to floss.


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package org.deeplearning4j.nn.graph.vertex.impl;

import org.deeplearning4j.nn.api.Layer;
import org.deeplearning4j.nn.api.MaskState;
import org.deeplearning4j.nn.gradient.Gradient;
import org.deeplearning4j.nn.graph.ComputationGraph;
import org.deeplearning4j.nn.graph.vertex.BaseGraphVertex;
import org.deeplearning4j.nn.graph.vertex.VertexIndices;
import org.nd4j.linalg.api.ndarray.INDArray;
import org.nd4j.linalg.api.ops.impl.broadcast.BroadcastDivOp;
import org.nd4j.linalg.api.ops.impl.broadcast.BroadcastMulOp;
import org.nd4j.linalg.factory.Nd4j;
import org.nd4j.linalg.ops.transforms.Transforms;
import org.nd4j.linalg.primitives.Pair;

/**
 * L2NormalizeVertex performs L2 normalization on a single input.
 *
 * @author Justin Long (crockpotveggies)
 * @author Alex Black (AlexDBlack)
 */
public class L2NormalizeVertex extends BaseGraphVertex {

    private static final int[] DEFAULT_RANK2_DIMS = new int[] {1};
    private static final int[] DEFAULT_RANK3_DIMS = new int[] {1, 2};
    private static final int[] DEFAULT_RANK4_DIMS = new int[] {1, 2, 3};

    private int[] dimension;
    private double eps;

    public L2NormalizeVertex(ComputationGraph graph, String name, int vertexIndex, int[] dimension, double eps) {
        this(graph, name, vertexIndex, null, null, dimension, eps);
    }

    public L2NormalizeVertex(ComputationGraph graph, String name, int vertexIndex, VertexIndices[] inputVertices,
                    VertexIndices[] outputVertices, int[] dimension, double eps) {
        super(graph, name, vertexIndex, inputVertices, outputVertices);
        this.dimension = dimension;
        this.eps = eps;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean hasLayer() {
        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public Layer getLayer() {
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    public INDArray doForward(boolean training) {
        if (!canDoForward())
            throw new IllegalStateException("Cannot do forward pass: inputs not set (L2NormalizeVertex " + vertexName
                            + " idx " + vertexIndex + ")");

        // L2 norm along all dimensions except 0, unless user-specified
        // x / |x|2
        INDArray x = inputs[0];
        int[] dimensions = getDimensions(x);

        INDArray xNorm2 = x.norm2(dimensions);
        Transforms.max(xNorm2, eps, false);

        if (x.rank() == 2) {
            return x.divColumnVector(xNorm2);
        } else {
            INDArray out = Nd4j.createUninitialized(x.shape(), x.ordering());
            return Nd4j.getExecutioner().execAndReturn(new BroadcastDivOp(x, xNorm2, out, 0));
        }
    }

    @Override
    public Pair<Gradient, INDArray[]> doBackward(boolean tbptt) {
        if (!canDoBackward())
            throw new IllegalStateException("Cannot do backward pass: errors not set (L2NormalizeVertex " + vertexName
                            + " idx " + vertexIndex + ")");

        INDArray x = inputs[0];
        int[] dimensions = getDimensions(x);

        INDArray norm = x.norm2(dimensions);
        INDArray norm3 = Transforms.pow(norm, 3.0, true);
        Transforms.max(norm, eps, false); // in case of div/0
        Transforms.max(norm3, eps, false);

        INDArray dLdx;
        if (x.rank() == 2) {
            // 2D case
            dLdx = epsilon.divColumnVector(norm);
            INDArray xDivNorm3 = x.divColumnVector(norm3);
            dLdx.subi(xDivNorm3.muliColumnVector(epsilon.mul(x).sum(1)));
        } else {
            //RNN and CNN case - Broadcast along dimension 0
            INDArray dx = epsilon.mul(x).sum(dimensions);

            //x / |x|_2^3 * sum_k (dLda*x)
            INDArray xDivNorm3 = Nd4j.createUninitialized(x.shape(), x.ordering());
            Nd4j.getExecutioner().exec(new BroadcastDivOp(x, norm3, xDivNorm3, 0));
            Nd4j.getExecutioner().exec(new BroadcastMulOp(xDivNorm3, dx, xDivNorm3, 0));

            //1/|x|_2 * dLda - above
            dLdx = Nd4j.createUninitialized(epsilon.shape(), epsilon.ordering());
            Nd4j.getExecutioner().exec(new BroadcastDivOp(epsilon, norm, dLdx, 0));
            dLdx.subi(xDivNorm3);
        }

        return new Pair<>(null, new INDArray[] {dLdx});
    }

    private int[] getDimensions(INDArray x) {
        if (dimension == null || dimension.length < 1) {
            switch (x.rank()) {
                case 2:
                    return DEFAULT_RANK2_DIMS;
                case 3:
                    return DEFAULT_RANK3_DIMS;
                case 4:
                    return DEFAULT_RANK4_DIMS;
                default:
                    throw new RuntimeException();
            }
        }
        return dimension;
    }

    @Override
    public void setBackpropGradientsViewArray(INDArray backpropGradientsViewArray) {
        if (backpropGradientsViewArray != null)
            throw new RuntimeException("Vertex does not have gradients; gradients view array cannot be set here");
    }

    @Override
    public Pair<INDArray, MaskState> feedForwardMaskArrays(INDArray[] maskArrays, MaskState currentMaskState,
                    int minibatchSize) {
        //No op
        if (maskArrays == null || maskArrays.length == 0) {
            return null;
        }

        return new Pair<>(maskArrays[0], currentMaskState);
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "L2NormalizeVertex(id=" + this.getVertexIndex() + ",name=\"" + this.getVertexName() + ",dim=\""
                        + dimension + "\")";
    }
}

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Superpuchar Polski w hokeju na lodzie mężczyzn 2019 – 6. edycja rozgrywek o Superpuchar Polski, zorganizowana przez Polską Hokej Ligę. W meczu rozpoczynającym sezon hokejowy 2019/2020 w Polsce zagrały zespoły mistrza Polski z sezonu 2018/2019 (GKS Tychy) i zdobywcy Pucharu Polski z tego samego sezonu (JKH GKS Jastrzębie). Spotkanie odbyło się 13 września 2019 roku w hali Jastor przy ul. Leśnej w Jastrzębiu-Zdroju.

Obrońcą tytułu była drużyna GKS-u Tychy, która w finale poprzedniej edycji pokonała MKS Comarch Cracovię 3:0 i po raz drugi w historii sięgnęła po to trofeum.

Uczestnicy

W meczu o Superpuchar Polski wystąpiły kluby, które zwyciężyły w najważniejszych rozgrywkach hokejowych w Polsce w sezonie 2018/2019. Dzięki zdobyciu 4. mistrzostwa Polski po wygranej w finale play-off z drużyną Comarch Cracovii 4:2, GKS Tychy zagrał w Superpucharze po raz czwarty. Tyszanie dwukrotnie w edycjach 2015 i 2018 zdobywali to trofeum, a raz w 2017 roku ulegli drużynie Cracovii. Drugim uczestnikiem spotkania był zespół JKH GKS Jastrzębie. Jastrzębianie w poprzednim sezonie wywalczyli drugi w historii klubu Puchar Polski. W rozgrywanym w Tychach turnieju finałowym najpierw w półfinale pokonali po serii rzutów karnych 4:3 drużynę Tauronu GKS Katowice, a następnie w meczu finałowym zwyciężyli 4:0 TatrySki Podhale Nowy Targ. Zespół JKH GKS Jastrzębie debiutował w rozgrywkach o Superpuchar Polski.

Przed startem nowego sezonu obydwie drużyny rozegrały mecze sparingowe, a także wystąpiły w turniejach towarzyskich. GKS Tychy drugi rok z rzędu uczestniczył w rozgrywkach Hokejowej Ligi Mistrzów. W rozegranych czterech spotkaniach tyszanie ponieśli cztery porażki. Najbliżej wygranej byli w meczu przeciw niemieckiemu Adler Mannheim, jednak ostatecznie przegrali 2:3 po dogrywce. Zespół z Tych przygotowując się do Ligi Mistrzów oraz ligi polskiej rozegrał w sierpniu pięć spotkań kontrolnych z drużynami czeskimi. Dwa z nich wygrał, a trzy przegrał. Z kolei zespół JKH rozegrał więcej meczów kontrolnych. Na początku sierpnia jastrzębianie wzięli udział w turnieju o Puchar RT Torax Poruba. Podopieczni Róberta Kalábera wygrali wszystkie spotkania pokonując zespół gospodarzy HC RT Torax Poruba, Draci Šumperk, HK Debreczyn oraz GKS Katowice. Ponadto w drugiej połowie sierpnia rozegrali trzy sparingi. Dwa ze słowackim MHC Martin, zakończone zwycięstwem i porażką oraz zwycięski z czeskim HC Frydek Mistek. Również w sierpniu JKH brało udział w silnie obsadzonym Pucharze Wyszehradzkim, gdzie zwyciężyło w rozgrywkach grupowych.

Składy
Przed rozpoczęciem nowego sezonu w obydwu klubach doszło do zmian kadrowych. Niewielkie roszady nastąpiły w drużynie GKS Tychy. Z klubu odeszło trzech podstawowych zawodników. Obrońca Kamil Górny wrócił do macierzystego klubu JKH GKS Jastrzębie. Zespół opuścił najlepszy strzelec Tomáš Sýkora, który przeniósł się do Fischtown Pinguins w niemieckiej DEL. Drużynę opuścił również ukraiński napastnik Andrij Michnow, który wrócił na Białoruś do Mietałłurga Żłobin. W ich miejsce klub wzmocniło również trzech hokeistów. Obrońca Denis Akimoto trafił do Tych z Zagłębia Sosnowiec. Umowę podpisał również dwaj napastnicy polskiego pochodzenia Christian Mroczkowski oraz Michael Szmatula.

Po nieudanym poprzednim sezonie w drużynie JKH GKS Jastrzębie doszło do dużych roszad kadrowych. Z klubu odeszli prawie wszyscy obcokrajowcy z wyjątkiem Martina Kasperlíka. Z klubem kontrakty podpisało trzech nowych obrońców i trzech napastników. Z GKS Tychy wrócił Kamil Górny, a linię defensywną wzmocnili doświadczony Łotysz Māris Jass, który w poprzednim sezonie występował w Tauronie GKS Katowice oraz Słowak Henrich Jabornik z węgierskiego Dunaújvárosi Acélbikák. Siłę ataku wzmocniło dwóch byłych napastników GKS-u Katowice. Maciej Urbanowicz, który został nowym kapitanem oraz Jesse Rohtla, który w ubiegłym sezonie ligowym zanotował 40 bramek i 76 asyst. Partnerem w linii ataku Rohtli ma być inny Fin Artem Iossafov, który w sezonie 2016/2017 był najlepszym strzelcem Podhala Nowy Targ.

GKS Tychy

JKH GKS Jastrzębie

Przed meczem

Bilety
Za dystrybucję biletów na spotkanie o Superpuchar Polski odpowiedzialna była Polska Hokej Liga. Od 2 września bilety na ten mecz dostępne były również w biurze klubu JKH na lodowisku Jastor. Wejściówki można było również nabyć przez internet w serwisie www.bilety.jkh.pl. Cena pojedynczego biletu wynosiła 15 zł bez podziału na normalne i ulgowe. Klub JKH wystosował również komunikat, w którym poinformował, że ze względu na niewielką liczbę pozostałych w sprzedaży biletów klub nie będzie przyjmował zorganizowanych grup kibiców gości.

Media i transmisje
Prawa do pokazywania meczu o Superpuchar Polski po rocznej przerwie nabyła stacja telewizyjna TVP Sport. Spotkanie było również transmitowane w internecie na platformie sport.tvp.pl. Transmisja meczu rozpoczęła się o godzinie 19:30, a mecz poprzedziło studio. Prowadziła je dziennikarka TVP Olga Rybicka wraz z byłym reprezentantem Polski Grzegorzem Piekarskim. Spotkanie komentowali Stanisław Snopek oraz Patryk Rokicki. W przerwach między tercjami wywiady przeprowadzała Anna Kozińska.

Spotkanie było również transmitowane przez Polskie Radio Katowice. Relacja rozpoczęła się o godz. 19:15 na częstotliwości 101,2, a także za pośrednictwem strony internetowej www.radio.katowice.pl. Mecz komentowali Jerzy Góra i Tadeusz Musioł. Mecz oglądało ok. 18 tys. telewidzów.

Sędziowie
Na początku września Wydział Sędziowski PZHL ogłosił obsadę sędziowską na spotkanie o Superpuchar. Identycznie jak podczas meczów Pucharu Polski i ligowych spotkań play-off, mecz sędziowało czterech sędziów, dwóch głównych i dwóch liniowych. Arbitrami głównymi zostali wybrani Tomasz Radzik z Krynicy-Zdroju i Przemysław Kępa z Nowego Targu. Na liniach pomagali im Wiktor Zień z Warszawy i Paweł Kosidło z Opola, a obserwatorem meczu był Jacek Rokicki.

Mecz
Spotkanie między mistrzem Polski a zdobywcą krajowego pucharu oficjalnie otworzyło nowy sezon ligowy w Polsce. Mecz rozpoczął się o godz. 19:30, a sędziowali go Tomasz Radzik z Krynicy-Zdroju i Przemysław Kępa z Nowego Targu. Na trybunach hali Jastor zasiadł komplet publiczności. Zespół z Tych przystąpił do tego spotkania w okolicznościowych koszulkach stylizowanych na stroje z początku istnienia sekcji. Od pierwszego gwizdka sędziego inicjatywę przejęli gospodarze, którzy stworzyli kilka okazji do zdobycia bramki. Jedną z nich zmarnował Kamil Wróbel, który będąc w sytuacji sam na sam z bramkarzem nie zdołał go pokonać. W 9. minucie hokeiści JKH wykorzystali grę w przewadze i objęli prowadzenie. Po założeniu hokejowego zamka spod niebieskiej Henrich Jabornik podał do Artema Iossafova, który odegrał do Jesse Rohtli. Nowo pozyskany fiński napastnik skierował krążek do bramki rywali. Po upływie 48 sekund tyszanie wyrównali stan rywalizacji. Indywidualną akcję przeprowadził Gleb Klimienko. Rosyjski napastnik wyłożył krążek Bartoszowi Ciurze, a ten strzałem przy słupku pokonał Ondřeja Raszkę. Był to moment zwrotny tego spotkania. Tyszanie dłużej utrzymywali się przy krążku i w 14. minucie zdobyli drugiego gola. Na listę strzelców strzałem z nadgarstka wpisał się Christian Mroczkowski. Kanadyjczyk wykorzystał zamieszanie pod bramką i to, że Raszka bronił nie swoim kijem. W tej części gry nie padły już żadne gole.

Drugą część gry dobrze rozpoczęli tyszanie. Krążek w tercji JKH przejął Klimienko i podał do niepilnowanego Michaela Cichego. Napastnik tyszan uderzył w krótki róg bramki, a źle ustawiony Raszka przepuścił krążek. Po tej sytuacji trener Róbert Kaláber dokonał zmiany w bramce jastrzębian, w miejsce Raszki wszedł David Marek. Kilka minut później napastnik JKH Kamil Wróbel zaatakował nieprzepisowo kolanem Adama Bagińskiego, za co otrzymał karę meczu. Bagiński z pomocą kolegów z drużyny zjechał do własnego boksu. Tyszanie grali przez pięć minut z przewagą zawodnika, jednak nie zdołali podwyższyć prowadzenia. W 29. minucie zawodnicy GKS-u zdobyli czwartego gola. Kontrę przeprowadzili Michael Kolarz z Patrykiem Kogutem, a akcję zakończył strzałem pod poprzeczkę poszkodowany kilka minut wcześniej Bagiński. Na pięć minut przed końcem tercji Aleksiej Jefimienko wykorzystał zamieszanie przed bramką Marka i zdobył piątego gola. Było to ostatnie trafienie w tej części gry i potwierdzenie przewagi tyszan.

Trzecia odsłona była bardziej wyrównana niż druga, w której dominowali tyszanie. W 45. minucie szóstego gola zdobył Alexander Szczechura, który wykorzystał dobre podanie zza bramki Gleba Klimienki. Było to ostatnie trafienie w tym meczu. Dobrą okazję do zmniejszenia rezultatów porażki zmarnował Artem Iossafov, który przegrał pojedynek jeden na jeden z bramkarzem Tych Johnem Murrayem. Ostatecznie mecz zakończył się zwycięstwem GKS-u Tychy 6:1, którzy zdobyli Superpuchar Polski po raz trzeci w historii.

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Andrej Husau, trener GKS Tychy: – Chcę podziękować naszym kibicom za to, że przyjechali do Jastrzębia. Jak zawsze, gdy pojawiają się na trybunach atmosfera jest niesamowita. Co do samego meczu… Bardzo dobra gra gospodarzy w pierwszej tercji. Przegraliśmy ją w strzałach i wznowieniach. Przeciwnik był szybszy i agresywniejszy. Obawiałem się trochę tego, bo w ostatnich czterech spotkaniach w Lidze Mistrzów, więcej się broniliśmy, niż prowadziliśmy grę. Rywale bardzo rzadko pozwalali nam robić jakieś akcje w tercji ataku. Nasi napastnicy trochę zapomnieli jak prawidłowo grać w tercji rywala. Później doszliśmy do siebie. Myślę, że od początku drugiej tercji byliśmy lepszą drużyną na tafli. Trzecia tercja była zdecydowanie najlepsza. Przeciwnik cofnął się do tyłu i nie atakował nas już tak agresywnie. Cieszę się z tego, że chłopaki zdobyli trofeum, ale jutro już o tym zapomnimy, bo rozpoczyna się liga…

Róbert Kaláber, trener JKH GKS Jastrzębie: – Tak jak kolega mówił pierwsza tercja z naszej strony była bardzo dobra. Zagraliśmy szybko, agresywnie, nie dając przeciwnikom dużo miejsca na grę. To my powinniśmy prowadzić po 20 minutach 2:1, a nie rywal. Różnica była tylko taka, że to przeciwnikowi łatwo przychodziło zdobywanie goli, a nie nam. Ciężko się napracowaliśmy, ale zdobyliśmy tylko jedną bramkę. Później lepsi byli tyszanie. Byli szybsi, dokładniejsi i wygrywał pojedynki "jeden na jeden". Przy bramce na 3:1 pomogliśmy GKS-owi, podając jednego z tyskich graczy. Później na lodzie była już tylko jedna drużyna. W takich meczach trzeba uznać wyższość rywali i docenić ich jakość. Tyszanie mają duże doświadczenie, zaczerpnięte z Hokejowej Ligi Mistrzów. Dzisiaj byli lepsi i zasłużenie zdobyli trofeum…

Wynik

Statystyki
W edycji z 2019 roku udział wzięły zespoły mistrza Polski GKS-u Tychy oraz zdobywcy Pucharu Polski JKH GKS Jastrzębie. Hokeiści obu drużyn w regulaminowym czasie gry zdobyli łącznie siedem bramek. Wszystkie klasyfikacje indywidualne wygrali zawodnicy GKS-u Tychy. Najskuteczniejszym zawodnikiem z jedną bramką i dwiema asystami był amerykański napastnik Michael Cichy. W turnieju siedmiu zawodników zdobyło po jednym golu, z czego sześciu z drużyny GKS Tychy. Najlepiej asystującym zawodnikiem w rozgrywkach Superpucharu Polski był rosyjski napastnik Gleb Klimienko, który zanotował trzy kluczowe podania. W meczu przynajmniej jeden punkt za asystę otrzymało 10 graczy. Najwięcej z drużyny triumfatora GKS-u Tychy 8 hokeistów. Klasyfikację kanadyjską wygrał najlepszy strzelec turnieju Michael Cichy, który zdobył 3 punkty za gola i dwie asysty. W zestawieniu najlepiej punktujących obrońców zwyciężył Bartosz Ciura z 1 punktem za gola. Był jedynym obrońcą, który wpisał się na listę strzelców. Bramkarz GKS Tychy Ondřej Raszka zakończył turniej z najlepszą skutecznością obron wynoszącą 96,4%.

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Himmatnagar is a town in the Sabarkantha district of Gujarat. It lies on the bank of the Hathmati river and is 68 km from Barmer and 487 km from Jaipur. It was named after the king, Himmat Singh. The local cuisine is said to be delicious and includes Daal Baati and Gujarati Thali. The economy of this place largely deals with the manufacturing of ceramic tiles and dairy products.
Economical hotels to stay in are Hotel Payal (tariff Rs. 500), Ekta Hotel (tariff Rs. 600 onwards), Hotel Landmark (tariff Rs. 1,200) and Hotel Sunrise Grand (tariff Rs. 1,500.)
The languages spoken in Himmatnagar are Rajasthani, Hindi and English.
Festivals celebrated in Himmatnagar are Makar Sankranti, Holi, Diwali and Navratri, Ganesh Chaturthi and Eid-ul-fitr.
Himmatnagar has numerous temples and a very famous fort known as the Maharaja Himmat Singh Fort. The temples include the Jain Temple and the Bholeshwar Temple.
The nearest airport is the Jodhpur airport which is 154 km away.
Himmatnagar has no railway station. The nearest railway station is the Jodhpur railway station which is 152 km away.The Udaipur-Ahmedabad Express (19943), the Ajmer Express (12989) and the Mewar Express (12963) are some trains that go to and from cities like Ahmedabad, Mumbai and Delhi and other nearby towns.
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MCQ Questions Chapter 9 Force And Laws Of Motion Class 9 Science
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Please refer to the following Chapter 9 Force And Laws Of Motion MCQ Questions Class 9 Science with solutions for all important topics in the chapter.
MCQ Questions Answers for Chapter 9 Force And Laws Of Motion Class 9 Science
Question. A men is at rest in the middle of a pond on perfectly smooth ice. He can get himself to the shore by making use of Newton's
(a) first law
(b) second law
(c) third law
(d) all the laws
Question. A number of forces acting on a body changes velocity of the body. The forces cannot be
(a) paralleled
(b) unbalanced
(c) balanced
(d) inclined
Question. Newton's second law of motion gives us a measure of
(a) force
(b) inertia
(c) mass
(d) acceleration
Question. Choose the correct statement(s).
(a) Action and reaction forces act on same object.
(b) Action and reaction forces act on different objects.
(c) Both a and b are possible.
(d) Neither a nor b is correct.
Question. The momentum of an object at a given instant is independent of its
(a) inertia
(b) mass
(c) velocity
Question. A body at rest explodes into two equal parts. Then
(a) they move with different speeds in different directions
(b) they move with different speeds in same direction
(c) they move with same speed in same direction
(d) they move with same speed in opposite directions
Question. Read the given statements and select the correct option.
Statement 1 : The forces of action and reaction always appear due to actual physical contact of two bodies.
Statement 2 : A particle can move only under the action of a force.
(a) Both statements 1 and 2 are true and statement 2 is the correct explanation of statement 1.
(b) Both statements 1 and 2 are true but statement 2 is not the correct explanation of statement 1.
(c) Statement 1 is true but statement 2 is false.
(d) Both statements 1 and 2 are false.
Question. A man is standing on a boat in still water. If he walks towards the shore the boat will
(a) move away from the shore
(b) remain stationary
(c) move towards the shore
(d) sink
Question. Galileo's law of inertia is another name for Newton's ………. law of motion.
(a) first
(b) third
(c) second
Question. Newton's third law is equivalent to the
(a) law of conservation of linear momentum
(b) law of conservation of angular momentum
(c) law of conservation of energy
(d) law of conservation of energy and mass
Question. A rider on horse falls back when horse starts running, all of a sudden because
(a) rider is taken back
(b) rider is suddenly afraid of falling
(c) inertia of rest keeps the upper part of body at rest while lower part of the body moves forward with the horse
Question. The change in the momentum of an object is equal to the ……….. applied to it.
Question. When a running car stops suddenly, the passengers are jerked ……….
Question. Impulse is the product of force and ………
Question. To every action, there is an ………. and ………. reaction.
equal, opposite
Question. If a force of 200 newtons is required to move a wagon up a frictionless hill at constant speed the force needed to left the wagon roll downhill at constant speed is ……….
200 Newtons
Question. ………. is a measure of the inertia of a body.
Question. No net force acts on a rain drop falling vertically with a constant speed.
Question. When we push our foot against the ground backwards (action), the ground exerts an equal and opposite force (reaction) on our foot which causes us to more forward.
Question. Particle moves in the direction of force.
Question. Momentum is never created nor destroyed.
Question. The product of the mass of a body and its velocity is called inertia.
(A) (q), (B) p, (C) t, (D), r, (E) s
ASSERTION AND REASON
Question. Assertion : Newton's third law applies to all types of forces. e.g. gravitational, electric or magnetic forces etc.
Reason : Newton's third law of motion is applicable only when bodies are in motion.
(a) Both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.
(b) Both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
(c) Assertion is true but reason is false.
(d) Both Assertion and Reason are false.
Question. Assertion : A rocket works on the principle of conservation of linear momentum.
Reason : For two bodies system when there is a change in momentum of one body, the same change occurs in the momentum of the second body but in the opposite direction.
Question. Assertion : When astronauts throw something in space, that object would continue moving in the same direction and with the same speed.
Reason : The acceleration of an object produced by a net applied force is directly related to the magnitude of the force, and inversely related to the mass of the object.
Question. Assertion : Mass is a measure of inertia of the body in linear motion.
Reason : Greater the mass, greater is the force required to change its state of rest or motion.
Question. Assertion : Linear momentum is conserved in both elastic and inelastic collisions.
Reason : Total energy is conserved in all collisions.
Question. Assertion : A body is momentarily at rest when it reverses the direction.
Reason : A body cannot have acceleration if its velocity is zero at a given instant of time.
Question. Assertion : When we sit on a chair, our body exerts a force downward and that chair needs to exert an equal force upward or the chair will collapse.
Reason : The third law says that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Question. Assertion : A boy facing forward in a moving bus throws a ball straight up. At the same instant the bus begins to accelerate. The ball goes up and falls in front of the boy.
Reason : As the ball rises, velocity remains constant.
Question. Assertion : Force exerted by the ground on the man moves him forward.
Reason : It is a reactional force.
Question. Assertion : When a bullet is fired from a gun, there is a forward force on the bullet and recoil of gun.
Reason : Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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The Governor of Bauchi State, Gov. Bala Mohammed has showed his support for his counterparts over claims that the government administration is lopsided.
The southern governors had claimed that Buhari operated an onsided form of administration.
Governor Bala admonish Muslims not to harbour criminals in the country
Supporting their claims, Bala during an interview with journalists said that there would always be a problem in the country if only one section is given positions in government. He went further to state that the the President is involved in blame games and lopsided appointments.
He stated that self actualisation and self determination will always play out if there is no fairness at the top.
"If there is nepotism where only one section is given positions in government, then there would be problems.
There is actually a lot of truth in what the southern governors said in some sections being highly favoured at the detriment of others.
There should always be a balance in terms of appointment of federal offices even in the local governments.
If we don't start to practice fairness at the too, we won't get it at the lower table and unless there is fair leadership of the country we cannot grow the economy
I think the Buhari administration has lost the idea on how to grow the economy. What they are beat know for his the blame game. They are the corrupt ones yet they claim to be fighting corruption.
There's more corruption; perceptions are built that there are sacred cows; there are the his in this country who cannot be touched".
Southern Governor's on May 14, urged the president to review appointments into federal agencies including security agencies to reflect federal character. The governors' of the states held a 4 hour meeting where they addressed various issues affecting the country.
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Masters of Mentalism
Each year it feels like I turn around and MindVention is suddenly over. Maybe it's the fact that people here run on somewhere between two and three hours of sleep a night. Maybe it's because of the steady influx of new information. Maybe it's just because it's Vegas...but suddenly we're out of lectures and coming up on the "Masters of Mentalism" show.
Tonight's line-up features Cashetta, Bob Cassidy, Docc Hilford, and John Riggs.
As usual, the front few rows will be salted with laypeople...who will be eyed by every mentalist in the room and may or may not wind up feeling like the last few mounds of hamburger in the middle of a crowd of teenagers with the munchies.
This afternoon had several really good lectures and discussions...and one very looooong lecture. Admittedly, this is a matter of personal taste -- so I will leave it to you to figure out which I see as which.
Cashetta's creator, Scott Weston, spoke first (out of drag costume) very knowledgeably about Q and A. There's real intelligence in what he had to say. There was genuine compassion when he talked about reading fortunes and loving his audience. The character, Cashetta really rides the edge in much of the material. But in hearing the guys talk about it, this was THE performance of the convention.
The highlight of the day, for me, was a panel discussion on Q and A,. Wonderful thoughts being shared by the likes of Bob Cassidy and Michael Weber. There was a feeling that most of the performers doing Q and A really need to either stop performing it or need to rethink their motivations -- to quit thinking "method" and start making it a depiction of the process of reading a mind.
This was followed by John Riggs doing his first lecture ever. Yup. I was as surprised to hear that as you are. He showed some wonderful methods of getting the peek from imp devices...but the bulk of what he taught centered around readings. Here's a sample: the "oracle" was a series of small objects: a rubber ball, a small teddy bear, a small Wizard of Oz book etc. The sitter chooses "even or odd" and those objects are pushed forward.
In this process, a ladybug fell off the table. Riggs said it was an important event, quoting the rhyme "Ladybug ladybug fly away home" -- and said it was an indication that a critical decision was on the way. Remember that this lecture was taking place in a room full of exhausted performers...most of whom don't do readings. There were a number of "huh" glances exchanged. The room was not as full at the end as it had been at the beginning.
So...in wrapping things up...these were the highlights for me this year:
* I'd never seen Michael Weber perform before. I was really impressed with the show he did, the intelligent thought behind the things he shared and his confident manner with the audience. It is my loss that I was not familiar with him until now.
* There's love in this fraternity. Cassiidy is getting his lifetime achievement award (he said it bothers him a little because he's a little concerned that this means he's done now) -- but I find it wonderful that this is a group that respects it's leaders.
* Mentalism takes many forms. Cashetta to Riggs....Cassiidy to Hilford. There's passion in all of them.
* MIndVention remains a small and friendly convention. Again -- I am struck by the intelligence of the people here. There's no mobbing of the dealer tables -- but there is a genuine exchange of information and feelings.
I love this place. MV Eleven happens next year in October. Richard Osterlind is going to be the guest of honor. And you're going to be seeing a lecture on pendulums as well.
So I'm off to the last show and then the pub. I expect to be out very late tonight -- and we're flying home tomorrow. My first show will be on Thursday --and that''s when the real world will be swimming back into focus.
This will be a good thing...because I can use the rest.
Hope you have enjoyed these updates.
(If you're wondering where the pictures are, check here. Sheree's done an awesome job as the official photographer.)
The last day of MindVention always takes me by surprise. Maybe it's the sleep deprivation...maybe it's constant stimulation. It could even be the non-stop barrage of cigarette smoke. But here it is: the last day.
Last night seems like several days ago. Gee...where to start? Cashetta, I guess. She/he has had a psychic show here in Vegas for years. You have to get this picture: over six feet tall (in heels), with a multi-sequined evening gown...along with a black boa. The show starts with a Show-tuney sounding song and roars through three standard effects...but what powers the show is the bigger-than-life personality and the really polished presentational skills he...or she...has.
The surprise? Cashetta is actually a very good psychic. She concluded the show by having various people take one tarot card from her deck. She blew (maybe that's a bad word choice...) through readings.
"You have to let that woman who has authority over you have her way...maybe that change in your life is happening for a good reason...your business is going to turn around. Just ride it out."
The show is peppered with really risque references and concludes with some...long balloon...swallowing...and got a partial standing ovation from the attendees. A powerful character.
The Bob Cassidy Roast was well done. (Get it?) Ken and Mike Weber, Cashetta, Jheff and more took the stage. There were the expected stories about Bob's drinking and anti-focus talking -- but underlying all of it was a real affection for the guy. He got a minute long standing ovation at the end of it.
Through it all, Bob sat onstage, sipping an endless stream of rum and Cokes, laughing, grimacing and occasionally cringing. It was a lot of fun with just enough of an edge to make keep you on your toes.
In the bar afterward, Bob came by and told me that the things they said weren't all true. He's never actually been in prison..."except for that one night."
Today the schedule starts with Docc Hilford at 10:00, and a panel discussion on Q and A. John Riggs closes off the day with a lecture just before the Masters of Mentalism show which will feature Cashetta, Cassidy, Hilford and Riggs.
I don't expect to be back in this room until 2. :)
MindVention...if it was a week long I am pretty sure I'd be in a coma.
Halfway Done...
...there is still a Cashetta show tonight. In case you've never heard of Cashetta...he is a man dressed up like a woman who does a Q and A act. Or maybe...ummm...she does. Cashetta made a huge impact here last year when they (cause the term 'they' is easier than having to decide whether to say "he" or "she")popped by Jack's.
Cashetta is followed by the Bob Cassidy roast. and then down to the pub.
This afternoon Allison Campbell talked about picking up work on trade show work. She advocated a meat-eating strategy...tracking down clients in every possible place -- even going to trade shows you're not even interested in so you can meet corporate marketing directors. It was a great seminar on the business side of mentalism.
Paul Vigil, a Vegas magician talked about a clipline routine with serious passion. You've heard of a clipline, right? He did the word reveal using an Ouiji board. Very clever.
Bob Cassidy and Jheff took the stage next in a largely unstructured but absolutely fascinating discussion on "stuff." If you're a member of Bob's Master Mindreader Workshop, you've heard their 'chats.' This is what it was -- a rambling discussion on many different topics from cards in mentalism to alternate ways to switch slates or cards.
Man...sleep deprivation is part of MindVention. I'm feeling it. Here's the real issue: I KNOW I should be sleeping early tonight. And I know I won't.
I Would Have Written Sooner but...
...last night got kind of late.
Michael Weber did a great show last night. He's confident, smooth and very funny. He was easily the highlight of the day. He opened with a drawing dupe: one spectator is told to simply think of a picture to draw,,,and another spectator is told to read the first spectator's mind. Then they turn back to back and make their drawings. When they turn around...you guessed it: both guys have drawn flowers. I was sitting with Vancouver mentalist Eric Samuels and we both looked at each other and shrugged. The solution, as all good solutions tend to be, was simple and forehead slapping good.
He did a nametag routine where he invited six people to write their nicknames down...mixed up the pile and proceeded to give the right name tags to the right people. (I can see you nodding out there. Yeah...it works like you think it does. But, as Weber pointed out -- it's not about the effect. It's about the interaction. He did it well.)
This was followed by a memorized deck routine and a very nifty way of doing it without any memory work required at all. Clever.
Weber went over his allotted time with the full support of the organizers and the audience.
ParaLabs closed out the official presentations with a lecture on Theory and Presentation. They emphasized the importance co connecting emotionally with your audience.
Then it was off to Jack's Pub...where you usually find Bob Cassidy. On this night, Cassidy wasn't there. He told me he had to catch a very early flight. (If you know Bob...you know he''s not an early flight kinda guy.) He went to bed. But Jack's was hopping. I was there till just after 1:00 and when I left there were still guys chatting and drinking. There was talk among some of them about renting a limo and hitting the Strip. If they did that, I don't expect to see them at the morning sessions...which start in about half an hour.
Paolo Cavalli is a no-show. He''s having some passport issues. But there are a number of other presenters filling the spot. We're going see Patrick Redford and Joe Atmore perform and a "Top Secret Surprise Presenter" as well. (Yup...SECRET. I can't tell you who it is (Bill Abbott) because I am sworn to secrecy.
That's going to be followed by a couple of quickies: Allison Campbell and Paul Vigil will be doing 30 minute sessions.
Bob Cassidy and Jheff lecture at 3:00...I understand this is going to be more of a two person panel discussion. After dinner, we'll see Vegas mentalist Cashetta perform...and all of this is followed by the Bob Cassidy Roast.
This is going to be a wonderful day...which starts in about twenty minutes.
The First Day...So Far, Anyway
The opening day of MindVention is better than half over. Sheree is posting her photos to the MindVention page on Facebook...and this seemed as good a time as any to let you know a little about what's happened today.
The Attendee Show is always interesting to watch. It's rare that I get to watch another mentalist perform, so it's an ongoing fascination to see these guys from all over the planet perform their art. Usually there are some very good acts and some not so good acts taking the stage. This year it was a little more like a dealer show...which isn't necessarily bad.
We saw Cobra Magic demonstrate a mentalism chair that makes PK Touches a remote control proposition. Vancouver mentalist Eric Samuels showed off an interesting routine using "thought slices" long with an intuitive jigsaw puzzle routine. We saw a demonstration of the voodoo dowels from New Orleans mentalist Tim Pratt. It was a show worth watching...and i like to keep up with the latest/greatest props as much as the next guy.
ParaLabs made the first of two lectures scheduled for today. They revealed some of their philosophies about mentalism and told the group about something that is a potential game changer for mentalism.
Want to hear about it? Okay: the volunteer puts on a blindfold. When the blindfold is on, they literally hear a voice in their head. Did you get that? I'm not talking about something whispering in their ear...I'm talking about a voice conducted through the bones in your head. It literally is a voice you hear in a completely new way.
The example given was of a girl on stage in Cologne...hearing the voice of her boyfriend in her head asking her to marry him. In this case, one half of ParaLabs is on-stage...the other half is in Berlin, speaking into a microphone...doing the very voice she hears.
(I asked what it sounded like...and Ranier hooked me up to this blindfold. It's like a voice that is heard vibrating in your mind. Sorta kinda creepy in a way.) These guys are onto something powerful. They were plagued by technical challenges...but ultimately the concepts they are working with are the kind of props that could change the whole face of mentalism.
This was followed by a panel discussion regarding the issue of mixing magic and mentalism. The problem with the construction of the panel was that all three panelists: Paul Draper, Paul Vigil and Joe Atmore -- all felt mixing the two was fine. It surprised me that most of the audience agreed with this. I don't.
Up tonight: Michael Weber at 7:00 and one more lecture from ParaLabs on Theory and Presentation.
Then...well...the pub. Of course.
Hours Away Now...
"It''s not going to be...how do you say it?" Ranier Mees, half of the ParaLab partnership looks to Christophe Ambre (who some may know better as " Parmenion" -- the scourge of newcomers asking newbie questions on a website called The Magic Cafe). Christophe acts as the official translator for concepts-I-only-know-how-to-say-in-German. Ranier says a really long German word. Christophe thinks about it for a minute and then shrugs and says "commericial."
"Exactly!" says Ranier. "It's not going to be...umm...'dealer show' at MiindVention. It's going to be a real lecture.."
Ranier bristles with enthusiasm as he sips alternately between glasses of orange juice and white wine. His gestures are sharp and his eyes are always roving the room. He's an affably intense guy, which makes me smile because he explains his concepts in minute detail and his enthusiasm for mentalism is like a small tornado.
He's a sharp contrast to the other half of ParaLabs -- Thomas Heine. Thomas has a genial warmth about him. He is precise in his choice of words and he smiles as he watches Ranier enthuse about their latest creations.For every fifty words Ranier says, Thomas speaks five. But these are people who are passionate about mentalism. It's a good partnership, I think. I really like these guys.
Anyway -- Ranier is talking about the first of two lectures he and Thomas will be doing as MindVention gets started today.
Last night a number of people went out to see Gerry McCambridge's show "The Mentalist." (Gerry was offering free tickets to MV attendees.) Another group went to see David Coppefield...and still others went out exploring the Strip.
I spent a chunk of last night far more constructively.. I was in the pub reacquainting myself with "I'm no longer jet lagged" Jan Forster and the always interesting Paul Carnazzo.
The convention kicks off today at noon when the registration table opens, although I'm betting that there will be activity there by about 11:00 or so. The day starts with the attendee show at 1:00 and the first of two lectures from the ParaLab guys. At 4:30, there's a panel discussion on mixing magic and mentalism...at 7:00, Michael Weber steps in for Bruce Bernstien (who was unable to attend this year)...and the day concludes with Thomas and Ranier lecturing on Theory and Presentation.
Okay. That's not true. The day will actually conclude with a prolonged visit to Jack's Pub, where Bob Cassidy will be holding court.
I'm looking forward to this whole day. I'll keep you posted.
I'm Pretty Sure Some of You Guys Are Arriving...
It's great to be here early. We have been doing the tourist thing for the past few days...but every time I walk through the lobby or past Jack's Pub I still take a quick look to see if anyone's here.
We were in the lobby the other day and there was a guy who looked very much like Dirk Losander. (He had an accent too.)
"He's here for MindVention," said Sheree softly. "You should go and say hello."
"Why?" I asked -- which seemed, to me to be a reasonable question.
She shrugged and said "Because." (Like this explains everything.)
"It doesn't start for three days. No way," I responded. "Besides...if he is here for MindVention I'll see him soon enough."
I'm talking to the air. Sheree is standing in front of the Dirk doppelganger.
"Are you with MindVention?" she asks.
He looks at her for a long second. Then he scowls. "No." He goes back to his conversation.
I savor the moment because this is very likely the only time I am going to be right all weekend.
About Three Days Away From Bob's New Book
The first time I read "The Artful Mentalism of Bob Cassidy" -- I have to admit that I didn't understand it. I think I got it in an abstract way...but I didn't really understand it.
Since then, I've read it several times and each time I've grown a little closer to realizing what a gem I'm holding in my hands. There's wisdom here...the kind of stuff that comes from years of performing artful mentalism. What do I like about this book? It's not abstract thinking from someone who spends more time in an armchair than on in front of people. This is the real stuff: Advice on how to start your show....the philosophies behind why we do what we do as mentalists...forehead slapping ideas that are simple to perform and beautiful in their elegance.
It's one of five books that have shaped the way I think about mentalism...ideas that really molded the way I perform today.
Why am I telling you all this?
I spent the whole miserable flight from Edmonton to Vegas with my nose in this book...rereading it again and finding wonderful new things -- like I always do.
The Artful Mentalism of Bob Cassidy 2 makes its debut here at MindVention on Sunday. My copy is already reserved and I very much look forward to opening it and starting to discover new things Bob has to tell me.
We're doing the tourist thing...walking the Strip today. I'm going to enjoy it. And at the back of my mind, I'm settling back in happy anticipation at what's coming this weekend.
Roomy Advice for MindVention
The first year we came to MindVention, we checked in and walked into a room with an unmade bed, clothes on the floor and an unflushed toilet. This bothered Sheree (go figure) and I went to the front desk. They agreed that the room probably was occupied and maybe we should get a free upgrade. So we wound up in a great room.
The second year we wound up in a room with a carpet that can best be described as...crusty. So we upgraded our room to a Junior Suite for an additional $20 a day.
This year we endured a REALLY long flight on Air Canada...where passengers are seen as a necessary if regrettable aspect of the travel business...took a marathon walk to our rental vehicle...and stumbled into the lobby, ready to relax in our "luxury tower suite."
It has crusty carpets...two beds....and an undefinable odor. Sheree,again...not happy. I go down to the desk clerk and explain that we booked a Luxury Tower room and are a little confused about where the luxury might be. The desk person seems used to answering this question. She responds with the information that the hotel doesn't actually guarantee the room that has been booked.
I ask questions...but she nods tiredly, tells me that the hotel is sold out as in COMPLETELY FULL, offers me a food comp...and the promise that my wife's world will be set right the next morning.
I am at the front desk early this morning, rehashing the situation with a new clerk and he tells me that there is a room with one large bed...in a room that is a carbon copy of the one we're in. I know I'll never be able to sell this to Sheree so I ask about an upgrade. To make this story shorter, we're now in a little suite. And my wife is happy.
If you are on your way here the magic word is "Upgrade."
Don't say I never gave you anything.


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– in the House of Commons at 11:43 pm on 7th March 2019.
World Book Day's campaign aims to provide every child and young person in the country with a book of their own. It also offers a great opportunity for many children to go to school dressed as their favourite character. If this Chamber were to join in this morning, my choice would be for the Mad Hatter's tea party as a theme, with my friend Pete Wishart taking the leading role.
Speaking of balance and equality, I am delighted that my hon. Friend Bim Afolami is the first male Member to take up proxy voting for baby leave. I am sure we all congratulate him and his family on the arrival of their new baby. We also send our warmest wishes to Luciana Berger and her family on the birth of their baby.
Something else that needs to come back to this House is the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union—[Interruption.] I am really sorry, but the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, Victoria Atkins, has had her go. I need to ask the Leader of the House some questions, so would she mind not speaking so loudly?
Something else that has to be brought back to the House is the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. I do not know whether the Leader of the House heard the point of order from the Chair of the Exiting the European Union Committee yesterday, but he suggested that the Secretary of State is meeting individuals privately and has not said when he is coming to the Committee. My right hon. Friend Hilary Benn has made it absolutely clear that the Committee wants to hear from the Secretary of State before the vote on Tuesday. Will the Leader of the House please ensure that the Brexit Secretary—with or without his other half, the Attorney General—appears before the Committee, particular as one of the Government's red lines was lost in the House of Lords yesterday?
We know that the Government have paid £33 million to settle a lawsuit. Labour Members have totalled up the amount of money that the Secretary of State for Transport has cost the taxpayer, including in his previous guises, and it amounts to £2.7 billion. Imagine if all that was given to police officers, bringing them back on the beat. The Metropolitan Police Commissioner said that there is "some link" between violent crime on the streets and police numbers. Of course there is—everybody can see that. It does not matter whether the Prime Minister is in Cabinet Office briefing room A, B or C, the fact is that west midlands police and crime commissioner David Jamieson has asked for £964,000 to set up a violence reduction unit. All PCCs should be given funds straight away, before another young person dies this weekend. Yesterday, my hon. Friend Vernon Coaker raised a point of order to ask when the Home Secretary or Prime Minister will come to the House to update it on knife crime.
On the Financial Services (Implementation of Legislation) Bill and the fact that that business did not go forward, as the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, my right hon. Friend Mel Stride, said on Monday, it is right that we take the time to look properly at the proposed amendments and consider their impact with the Crown dependencies, which are separate jurisdictions with their own democratically elected Governments. Taking the time to review those amendments was therefore extremely important.
For years I have waited, with a degree of patience that verges on indulgence, for any glimmer of insight or glint of inspiration from Caroline Lucas. Finally, listening to the wireless this week, the eureka moment came, when she persuasively backed a campaign for all children to be taught something of natural history—our native trees, birds, flora and fauna. One might describe it as "the wind in the willows". Will the Leader of the House bring an Education Minister to this Chamber to say how schoolchildren will learn about those things, not because they are useful but just because they are lovely?
I completely agree with my right hon. Friend that learning about natural history—and, indeed, the history of our country and of the world—is absolutely vital for the education of young people. In particular, in the context of the extraordinary peace that has broken out between him and Caroline Lucas, I am sure that there is a campaign there somewhere. If they perhaps wanted to seek a Westminster Hall debate, I am sure that that would be widely welcomed across the House.
My hon. Friend makes a very good point about new towns—although I would have expected him to talk about new cities, which is what he usually does. I had the pleasure recently of visiting the new Bicester garden town with my excellent Parliamentary Private Secretary, my hon. Friend Victoria Prentis, who is sitting just in front of him. The Government have backed new towns through their garden communities programme, with 23 towns and villages in the current plans and more to be considered. We have also committed a new £10 million fund to help local areas prepare proposals for development corporations, because we recognise the need for strong delivery vehicles for significant new developments. He will have opportunities to put his views on those proposals in due course.
I would like to give notice of another matter. We have had on the stocks for some time now an application from Dame Cheryl Gillan and friends for a debate on world autism awareness, this year being the 10th anniversary of the Autism Act 2009, and we would prefer a debate before World Autism Awareness Week, which is on 1 to 7 April.
As someone who has not always agreed on everything with Chris Bryant since we have been in the House together, I too join the chorus of welcome. It is fantastic to see him in his place, and we all admire him for the courage with which he has spoken up to warn others of the dangers of this dreadful disease. Now, that is it for 18 years.
The coroner of north Staffordshire, Mr Ian Smith, who is retiring—I congratulate him warmly on his work and thank him for it, along with my hon. Friend Sir William Cash—has raised the problem of the lack of availability of pathologists to coroners conducting inquests. May we have an urgent debate on the matter? It means that funerals are being delayed, sometimes for weeks, which is causing huge concern and distress to families whose loved ones have passed away.
I did see the hon. Lady's tweet saying that she did not know she had to give prior notice. Of course she does not have to give prior notice. My point was merely that she was asking a question about a particular date, and since I am not a mind-reader, if she wanted a specific answer she could have asked me and I could have come to the Chamber well prepared. So the specific answer I can give her now is exactly what the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, my hon. Friend Victoria Atkins, said in the urgent question: it is expected that the Timpson review into exclusions will come soon, but my hon. Friend does not have an exact date for it. [Interruption.] Well, the reality is that there is not an exact date for that report. When I see the hon. Lady's letter I will try to find out if there is any further clarity on when that can be brought to the House, but I absolutely accept her desire to see urgent evidence on the issue of a link between exclusions and what happens to young people. She is absolutely right to be so passionate about the problems with serious violence, and I commend her for that.
I was pleased to support the ten-minute rule Bill of my hon. Friend Vicky Ford on low-level letterboxes, and I am delighted that that has come to fruition and that there will be changes. However, I was shocked yesterday to receive a letter from Royal Mail informing me that no mail would now be delivered to one estate in my constituency and that the residents would have to go to the Royal Mail depot to collect their post. The reason for this is that the postie who delivers that part of the round was threatened with a knife at his throat on the estate and, as a result, Royal Mail has withdrawn postal services. May we have a debate or a statement in Government time on the threats our posties face in carrying out their duty to the wider public?


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Holland Gateway Mission calls on public for help after fire
by: Joe LaFurgey
HOLLAND, Mich. (WOOD) — Gateway Mission volunteers Deny and Jana Gale walk through the mission's pantry Saturday afternoon with heavy hearts.
"I cried … I did," said Jana as she and her husband Deny maneuvered through the shelves and around the dehumidifiers and fans working to dry out the pantry at the Gateway Mission Men's Center on South River Avenue in Holland.
No one displaced after fire at Holland men's center
These are the shelves the retired couple help keep stocked with food that serves those who otherwise would go hungry. But their sadness is tempered by Gateway's mission.
"It can be renewed," said Jana. "That's what God does. He renews lives through Gateway. And in the pantry. It will be better. "
Holland firefighters got the call just before 7 p.m. Friday for a fire at the mission.
One person was treated for smoke inhalation, but everyone else got out unharmed.
It appears a light fixture in the Mission's pantry overheated, catching the cardboard boxes under the light to catch fire.
Aftermath of a fire at Gateway Mission in Holland on Jan. 20, 2023. (Courtesy Gateway Mission Holland)
But not for long.
"We had a sprinkler that was 18 inches away from where the fire started. Divine intervention perhaps? We think so," said the mission's Interim Director Jay Riemersma.
But the water that saved the building also ruined much of the supplies needed to feed the more than 100 people who find themselves at the mission day in and day out.
That's breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Water soaked the inventory before puddling on the floor. Holland firefighters did what they could to clean up the mess but the damage was done.
"Everything cardboard. All of our macaroni and cheese, all our paper products. Everything was destroyed and the health department's saying that we've got to get rid of it all," said Riemersma, who took over as interim director of the mission just a month ago.
"We think we have enough food to get through next week. But then after that, we're going to have to replenish that stock," he said.
The mission said it is urgently in need of food items, including boxed rice, cereal, noodles, dry milk and many other pantry staples. A list of needs and drop-off locations can be found on the mission's website.
"Though the fire was contained and we're thankful no one was hurt, we experienced (a) significant loss of food in our pantry during a time of year when we're serving more of the community's homeless than ever. We desperately need our friends to step up and replenish these food items so we can feed the more than 100 men, women and children sleeping in our shelters tonight," Riemersma wrote in a press release.
He's confident the community will step forward and help out. "We serve a great God. We have a very generous community here in Holland and West Michigan in particular," said Riemersma.
— News 8's Corinne Moore contributed to this report.
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a i u as the corresponding short sounds.
'home', but without the southern English diphthongal glide.
in French). Today it is read as ng in 'sing' (=n).
Some consonants cause difficulty for the Western student.
pronounce with a distinct puff of breath after it.
is difficult for English speakers to make this distinction.
like the English ch in 'church', or more exactly as in 'discharge'.
somewhere between the two and can scarcely hear the difference between these two series.
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represented by one letter in Oriental alphabets.
on page 48, is a kind of simplified Sanskrit.
s is a thin sh sound as in 'shin'.
~ is a thick sh sound as might be heard in 'push' (exaggerating the difference from that in 'shin').
(the same) consonant + h: thus sp>ph, st>th, etc.
Buddlliiya (homage to the Buddha) with a true dative fonn.
such a striking feature of the original.
king of neighbouring Kosala, which lay to the south.
Buddhist monks and nuns, which still exists today.
place in society. Buddhist sources, however (SuUa ), for example), assert the supremacy of the KhaUiyas (Skt. k~tnya).
or merchants, and finally the Suddas (SkI. sudra) or workers.
is also true that the two groups were usually rivals.
very interesting, and was undoubtedly exceptionally favourable to the development of the Buddhist and other faiths.
even kings, than did the Brahmins (see Sutta 2, verse 25ft).
Ajatasaltu in Sutla 2, verses 16-}2.
certam that Gotama was acquainted with their teachings.
supreme Self can only be said to fly in the face of the evidence.
finnly established in his lifetime and under his direction.
annihilationism (sec SuUa 1, verse l.JOff. and verse J_qfL).
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Nibbana after, at the most seven more lives.
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Path, and thus have got rid of the fetter of personality-belief.
annihilated in Nibbana, but the illusion of such a self is destroyed.
that which is born, become, made, compounded.
things, everything that 'exists' (sa"klliira i.n its widest sense).
difficult. It is the third mark that has provoked much controversy and misunderstanding.
to with great tenacity. Sec further, p. 32.
considered the tenn 'seLf, which to him was somethmg evanescent, to be ludicrously inappropriate to the supreme reality.
tables and chairs just like everyone else.
of conventional truth we cease to be subject to karmic law.
still persists even at that advanced stage.
stress the importance of not being misled by linguistic fonns and conventions. In this respect, he foreshadowed the modem linguistic or analytical philosophers. (The Message of the Buddha, 33).
of extra·sensory perception in the light of experimental evidence.
beginning to discover, or accept. We will leave it at that.
better. But it is as well to be aware of the correct distinction.
are limited by conditions, they are not totally determined.
Suttas, and especially in the first division of the Digha Nikaya.
of a twelve-spoked wheel. The Pali term pa!icca-silnluppiida (Skt.
11. Birth conditions (12) Ageing-and-Death (jiiti·paccayii jaramara~lam).
answer: "Yes." If asked: "What conditions ageing·and-death?"
past life, )-10 to this present life, and 11-12 to a future life.
as unenlightened beings, are caught up.
starting~point in this life, that is, to consciousness and mindand-body, which are said to condition each other mutually.
tradition of their own to which they finnly adhered.
nonsensical as some Western scholars have supposed..
a new consciousness arises at rebirth dependent on the old.
a shadow of doubt remaining.
Carlson Professor of Psychiatry in the Univen;ity of Virginia.
given way to equally excessive scepticism.
is samsiira or cyclic existence, the 'on-faring'.
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the four heavens of the Formless World.
able, and those above it too happy and carefree for the necessary effort to be easily made.
is making a statement that is false and without basis.
The word 'hell' is a tenn for painful bodily sensations.
Visuddhimagga 13.9Jff. for more on the first four abodes.
has many strange tales about them.
Khorakkhattiya (Sutta 24, verse 9 and n·44).
inhabitants of the worlds immediately above this one.
progress to a much higher plane if they make the effort.
divine bliss', but may also relate to Yama, king of the dead.
power. These two are the highest in the World of Sense Desires.
13-14. Mi1listers of Brahmii and Great Brahmiis. See below.
Nara Kalama, and to the Sphere of Neither-Perception-NorNon-Perception under his sccond teacher Uddaka Ramaputta.
interpretations may well be implied here.
probably better restricted to the inhabitants of realm No. 14.
2. purified, that is, Buddhas and Arahants, and ). spontaneously born (upp/lttidevii), that is, devas in the sense as used here.
and are still much addicted to sense-pleasures.
conception to take place. The word here means, as the commentaries explain, 'being about to be born', that is the new consciousness arising dependent on that of a being who has died.
Indian legend, Vi~':lu rode on a garuc;la.
full well the meaning of what they were repeating.
and the Mahiiyiina schools have many more.
that the collection as we have it originated over a longer period.
was in all probability not very different from Pali.
simply by making the necessary mechanical transpositions?
moli and others, as indicated at the appropriate places.
great deal more. I have dealt with repetitions in three ways.
I have permitted myself a few syntactic abridgements.
have 'the Blessed One', 'the Exalted One', and so on.
of the Suttas would be woefully deficient. The two chief commentaries have been published in Pali by the PaH Text Society.
translated into English from their rather difficult late PaH language.
This deals with monastic discipline, for monks and nuns.
interest to lay Buddhists (see below).
translated into English by the PTS.
The 5utta Pitaka consists of five collections (nikiiyas). The present translation is a new version of the first of these.
edited and revised by Bhikkhu Bodhi, Boston 1995. IMN!
subject-matter). Translated by CA.F. Rhys Davids and F.L.
Woodward (PTS, 5 volumes, 1917-30) as 'Kindred Sayings'.
(4) Anguttara Nikiiya ('collection of expanding groups', i.e.
Murray, London 1972) is recommended for the serious student.
translated by LB. Homer (PTS 1974) as 'Stories of the Mansions'.
[Thag] and (ix). Therigathii ('songs of the female elders', i.e.
Arahants) [Thig]. Verse translation of (viii) and (ix) by CA.F.
(PTS, 2 volumes, 1969, 1971) as 'The Elders' Verses'.
(xiv) Buddhavamsa ('chronicle of Buddhas') Translated by I.B.
views are trapped in his net.
Stream-winner by the 'opening of the Dhamma-eye'.
does indeed bear the thirty~two marks, and becomes a convert.
convert but does not experience the 'opening of the Dhammaeye'.
5. Kiitadanta Suttn: About Kutadanta (A Bloodless Sacrifice).
'pure and spotless Dhamma-eye' opens in him.
soon through diligent practice he becomes an Arahant.
without knowing who she was or what she looked like.
the young Brahmin Subha, who becomes a lay-follower.
kind of miracle he approves of is the 'miracle of instruction'.
12. Lohicca SI/Ita: About Lohicca (Good and Bad Teachers).
lead to that goal-which is not, of course, the goal of Buddhism.
ing of dependent origination (see next Sutta).
15. Mahiinidiina Sutta: The Great Discourse on Origination.
place's future greatness (it became Asoka's capital pataliputra).
by the gods) to lead a life of meditation.
increasing and those ')f their opponents the asuras, declining.
and reports, similarly to SuUa 18, on a meeting of the gods.
he was able to teach then.
with the hand of the gandhabba maiden he desired..


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Swedish and Nigerian researchers have joined forces in a study of the consequences when people hunt for so-called "bushmeat", wildlife that can include animals at risk of extinction. Their special focus has been on the hunt of our primate cousins.
They eat fruit and disperse the seeds throughout the forest in their dung. They also carry the fruit with them as they travel about, spitting out the seeds wherever they might eat it.
This ensures the regeneration of the fruit trees, giving seedlings an opportunity to grow. The study shows that without simian aid the future of these trees looks dismal.
"This is your standard downward spiral. Poor people are not at liberty to make the best choices for themselves or the forest," says Ola Olsson, a biologist at Lund University who was responsible for the study.
Bushmeat can include great apes such as gorillas and chimpanzees, as well as monkeys.
In well-off countries we appreciate these species, which are our closest relatives, for their own sake, and don't like to think of them as a source of protein.
They are also good keepers of the rain forest.
The forest studied by Olsson and his colleagues houses some 200 species of fruit trees, including Irvingia, also called bush mango, and trees that resemble nutmeg.
Some of these bear such large fruit – and big seeds – that the seeds cannot be spread by wind or smaller animals.
Their seeds are only dispersed when eaten by great apes, which deliver them to new places hours later in their dung.
"This is a good start for a young tree. It can get far away from the parent tree and get established in a pile of natural fertilizer. Some of these seeds cannot grow unless they have first passed through the intestines of an ape," explains Olsson.
Most fruit tree saplings gain from taking root far from the mother tree. Mature fruiting trees attract hungry animals which might also eat the seed or the seedling before it takes hold.
Monkeys have other techniques of seed dispersion too.
"They do what many of us might do in the presence of a cherry tree. They fill their mouths with the fruit and spit out the pits. Smaller primates are great at this. They have cheek pockets which they fill with fruit. Then they take off, spitting out the seeds one by one as they eat them. This seems to be ideal for the trees," says Olsson.
Olsson and his Nigerian, Swedish and American colleagues have looked at what kind of trees grow in forest areas which either see a lot, or relatively little, hunting for bushmeat.
"The result wasn't unexpected, but I was surprised by how strong and unmistakable the effect was," says Olsson.
A well protected area had twice as many groups of apes and monkeys as one frequently used by hunters. Moreover, the forest with a denser simian population can have nearly two-and-a-half times as many young fruit trees. In the hunted areas with sparser simian populations the trees that succeeded best were those that spread their seeds in other ways, for instance through the wind.
In another experiment the researchers chopped down nearly all the vegetation in a couple of small areas to ascertain which tree species established themselves within two years. The result was exactly the same – fewer fruit trees took hold when the wild primates were under pressure.
Olsson and colleagues selected areas to study in Nigerian national parks. However, deforestation is at least as big a threat to monkeys and apes as bushmeat hunters, so Olsson fears that the real situation is worse than what the study encountered.
There are no quick fixes for ensuring viable population of simians, fruit trees and a healthy rain forest biodiversity. It would be arrogant to suggest that the Nigerians starve themselves for the sake of fruit trees.
However, there are incentives. Humans are primates too and we also like to eat the rain forest fruit and have an interest in the proliferation of fruit trees.
"We have spoken with the locals in the area and out impression is that they have a positive attitude toward the apes and monkeys – and they know how necessary they are for the forest," says Olsson.