It's that time of the year again, where there are festivities galore, there is happiness and warmth all around and it is time to celebrate the most important and loved festival of India, Diwali.
The celebrations are held all over the year round with much enthusiasm, joy and lot of gaiety. People come together and to spread the warmth and grandeur and it is believed to bring in wealth and prosperity.
However it is celebrated differently in different parts of the country. The vibe and the thinking is pretty much the same but that way of celebrating is slightly different.
The roots of Diwalitraditionally lie in North India itself and the kind of celebrations are equally different.
According to the legend, Diwali is celebratedas a result of the homecoming of Ram to the city of Ayodhya.
It is celebrated with lights, fireworks, crackers and a whole lot of different entertainment.
The huge effigies of Ravana are burnt symbolizing the victory of Lord Ram.
Goddess Laxmi, Ganesha are also worshipped and the temples are dedicated to Lord Rama.
In the eastern part of India also, it is celebrated with much fanfare and lanterns are places across different homes.
Various sweetmeats are distributed all across the place.
The primitive custom here is to celebrate the burning of the jute stems, which is supposedly called out to remember the forefathers.
In West Bengal, Goddess Kali is worshipped and the festival is marked with huge pandals and impressive decors.
The celebrations being almost around 15 days prior and the streets light up with a lot of shopping frenzy freaks.
It normally goes on around for 5-6 days with different days dedicated to each one of the day.
Images of small intricate images of Goddess Laxmi are drawn in front of the house.
In South India, it is celebrated in the month of Thula.
Narak Chaturdashi is the main day of the celebrations of the Tamlis.
Individual homes are celebrated with traditional Kolam designs as is the tradition.
Newlywed couples also celebrate Thali Deepawal,which is the traditional festival which all the newlyweds perform.
In rural India the custom is slightly different as it is mostly associated with the harvest celebrations and worshipping of the farms. It is more a celebrations of their farms rather than the actual pomp and fair although it is celebrated at dusk and with earthen lamps being lit up and bursting of the firecrackers.
Diwali is by far the biggest and the most important festival of India. And it is celebrated with equal grandeur with friends and relatives.


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Author: Ayodele Gilbert
September 1, 2015 by Ayodele Gilbert
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The word "fire" is synonymous only to "destruction" to most people with limited knowledge on the role fire plays in natural ecosystems, which includes me. Until recently, I could not have believed that fire is as relevant as the air we breathe until I started my PhD in Ecology. Considering my background in Microbiology and Marine biology it is only by reading journal articles on fire have I begun to understand the important of fire. What motivated me to take up the PhD position was partly because of my biased mind against fire because I've never seen anything good about fire – and here I am presented with a very good opportunity to understand the vital role fire plays in the terrestrial ecosystems. Fire is a natural process that accompanies nature, fire plays a pivotal role in the regeneration, evolution and diversification of many plant species. For example, results from fossil charcoal records shows that fire started after the appearance of terrestrial plants in the Silurian (420 million years ago (Ma)). The perturbation of terrestrial ecosystems by humans has altered the functions of fire in the ecosystem, which has led to the disturbance of the terrestrial biosphere These anomalies in fire regimes have altered carbon stored in vegetation and soil, resulting in the modified releases of trace gasses and aerosols, including CO2, CO, CH4, NOx and black carbon. After years of studying fire regimes we are yet to fully comprehend and understand fire patterns and behavior around the globe. The lack of sufficient knowledge on causes and effects of fire has led to great economic losses in billions of dollars due to increases in uncontrollable fires, regardless of the national fire-fighting capacity or management tactics.
The analysis of historical data and fire records shows that climate and humans are the major drivers of fire occurrence and behavior. This has necessitated the need to understand past fire and climate events in other to predict future fire behaviors. The use of sediments, soil charcoal and tree-rings have helped in understanding the past fire regime and it can also be a way in understanding possible future fire conditions. Recently, satellites have been used on a global scale to understand fire but they are restricted to burnt areas has observed by these satellites (i.e. using remote sensing). This is of great concern because fire is multidimensional, and focusing on a single factor undermined it importance in the Earth system. In recent studies, researchers have tried to reconstruct previous fire events that occurred millions of years ago in other to understand the impact of climate change and humans on wildfire regime. The results obtained shows that there was decline from AD to ~1750, before a sharp increase between 1750 and 1870. The rise was attributed to the increase of human influences e.g. rise in population and change in anthropogenic land use. The use of paleoecological data are thus essential in understanding past fire regime.
Results from this studies and model simulation from other research has shown that anthropogenic climate change will led to increase in fire activity. The dynamic nature of the terrestrial ecosystem has been a major driving force in the development of global terrestrial biogeography and biogeochemistry models in the 1980s, in other to better understand and quantify ecosystem has a major player in Earth system. This has led to the development of different types of model to study fire dynamics. The majority of the models developed are coupled with the Dynamic global vegetation model. Examples of available fire models are the MC-Fire, Spread and Intensity (SPITFIRE), LPJ-LMfire (v1.0), Land surface and Processes and exchanges (LPX) etc. Model simulations and paleoecological data are the future to understanding and recognizing fire as an integral part of human ecosystem.
Today, Bozeman is surrounded by wildfires going on in Washington, Idaho and Montana, and the smoke is all over town and inside. Getting a paleo perspective on fire is important for understanding how climate change and land management have caused these fires to occur. https://google.org/crisismap/2012_us_wildfires
Gilbert Ogunkoya began his PhD in August 2015 in the Ecosystem Dynamics Lab in the Department of Ecology at Montana State University, Bozeman. His work investigates fire dynamics in South America during the Holocene using ecosystem modeling and paleoecological data. Gilbert is funded by the NSF Geography and Spatial Sciences Program (#1461590) and working with Dr. Ben Poulter, Dr. Cathy Whitlock, and Dr. Jed Kaplan.
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Hessl, A. E.: Pathways for Climate Change Effects on Fire: Models, Data, and Uncertainties, Progress in Physical Geography, 35, 393-407, 2011.
Marlon, J. R., Bartlein, P. J., Carcaillet, C., Gavin, D. G., Harrison, S. P., Higuera, P. E., Joos, F., Power, M. J., and Prentice, I. C.: Climate and human influences on global biomass burning over the past two millennia, Nature Geoscience, 1, 697-702, 2008.
Sitch, S., Smith, B., Prentice, I. C., Arneth, A., Bondeau, A., Cramer, W., Kaplan, J. O., Levis, S., Lucht, W., Sykes, M. T., Thonicke, K., and Venevsky, S.: Evaluation of ecosystem dynamics, plant geography and terrestrial carbon cycling in the LPJ dynamic global vegetation model, Global Change Biol., 9, 161-185, 2003.
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Bulletin 45 | September 2014
Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh
September 2014 Bulletin 45
2nd September 2014 visit to National Sikh Heritage Centre and Holocaust Museum Derby by Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Stephen Williams MP in commemoration of the Sikh contribution and sacrifices during World War I.
4th September 2014 Secretary General of Sikh Council UK attended an urgent meeting with Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Schools, Lord Nash at the DfE to discuss concerns regarding a Sikh ethos Free school in Leicester being removed from the control of the Akaal Education Trust a few days prior to its opening. Following the meeting the school was reinstated to the Trust with new Trustees and Governors and work is under way to prepare for its opening in October.
11th September 2014 visit and unveiling of a memorial plaque in commemoration of the Sikh contribution and sacrifices during World War I at Gurdwara Baba Budha Ji by Minister of State for Policing, Criminal Justice and Victims, Rt Hon Mike Penning MP….
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You've Got Mail: Iowa Football Opponents, Great Sandwiches and MUCH More!
We're touching 'em all this week, folks.
By JPinIC@JPinIC_BHGP May 13, 2021, 7:24am CDT
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A matchup with The U would certainly be entertaining.
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After a bit of a disappointment, you guys delivered this week. There are some good ones in the comments and frankly, there are more I'd like to dive deep on or spend an entire post exploring (hey, it is the offseason so perhaps we'll get there), but your attention spans are only so long.
So rather than waste any more of those, let's dive in on this week's mailbag, shall we?
Three Up, Three Down
Slow news period?
Why no coverage of second Spring practice/game? How's Goodson looking? Why no story on Niemann being drafted? Why no story on other Hawk free agent signings? Seems like there was news, just not covered here.
- IowaArtist
Yes, slow news period. As I wrote, right now (eg this week, next week and really the week after that) is a slow news period. There was news and it's totally fair to say some of it wasn't covered here. As I noted in last week's Q&A, life is happening.
For me personally, that has meant the same 60-70 hours of work a week I've had for 14 months now, but more stuff for the family and that has come at the expense of content here. I've still managed to get nine posts up in 12 days, but there have been some major topics I hoped to cover which I've not had adequate time to do justice to.
Niemann, for example, has a half written draft sitting in our story editor from when one of my kids started getting sick (they all three came down with some sort of non-COVID virus). It seems silly to publish on that at this point. Free agent signings, I had hoped would be picked up by someone, but the rest of our staff has life happening too. Ditto the second spring game. I wasn't able to attend and while I'll gladly give you my thoughts, I don't know that they're worth any more than what you could go read from someone like Chad Liestikow, Scott Dochterman, Leah Vann, Tom Kakert, David Eickholt or any of the other countless Iowa reporters who are capital "J" journalists who were actually in attendance.
We will be covering football and breaking down our staff thoughts on position strengths and weaknesses, etc. over the summer, but we're now nearly two weeks out from the second spring game and it just seems silly to try and cover them now at a time where we, as a staff, finally have availability instead of looking at things through a new lens and a different angle.
But on that note, The Pants is looking to expand the staff. With people getting their lives back, finding time to contribute to the site has become more difficult for a number of people, myself included. So we need help. If anyone is interested in joining the staff in some capacity, please email bhgp1847@gmail.com with a description of what you think you could bring to the site. We also ask that you include a writing sample.
Alright, to more fun topics.
Let's say the Big Ten and ACC agreed to do a Big Ten-ACC challenge in football this upcoming season. What would your ideal Iowa opponent be, and if you could create matchups for the entire challenge, what would they be?
- Gookin
As was noted in the comment section, I don't know that if I were choosing a conference to do an annual football challenge with it would be the ACC. So perhaps that's something we dive into in a later post, but for the purposes of this one, I'll play along.
So this year is a bit of a unique one for the Hawkeyes. Here's a look at the schedule as it stands today:
Image via ESPN.com
It's not exactly a Murderer's Row, but the first two games certainly look more difficult than in a typical season. So if you're going to add in an ACC opponent this year and take off Kent State or Colorado State, I'm probably going to be looking for a decent matchup for Iowa rather than the most difficult opponent.
Pitt has historically been a good matchup, but that's one Iowa can lose and frankly, not one that comes with much cache (which is precisely why Iowa has such a difficult time finding high end OOC opponents to begin with - they fit that bill). I don't think Iowa wants any part of Clemson, really ever, so if they were looking for the cache effect and a difficult opponent, I would say a showdown with UNC would be solid or the likes of Miami, Florida State or Virginia Tech. Those schools, regardless of on-field performance, tend to come with some modest credit for wins early in the season.
But again, I don't know that that's what Iowa should be looking for in week 3 or 4 after playing Indiana and likely the best Iowa State team in nearly 20 years. So to me, the ideal opponent this season is Wake Forest.
I'm going to hold off on a full rundown of a hypothetical Big Ten-ACC Challenge for the sake of brevity here and because I actually like the matchups Gookin put together for a realistic challenge.
Describe your favorite pizza(s) or sandwich(es) in detail.
- WaterlooChazz
This is a much more difficult question than it should be, largely because I like a lot of different things for a lot of different reasons. If I had to choose just one thing to eat the rest of my life, it would be pizza due to its versatility. If I had to choose one style/brand in such a scenario it would probably be a basic pepperoni pizza from somewhere like Pizza Hut.
BUT, that's not really what was asked. On the pizza front, I'm a fan of just about anything that has loads of meat. A nice flying tomato style pie from Wig and Pen with sausage and pepperoni and Canadian bacon is incredible with the deep-ish crust that has layers and layers of cheese (and frankly, the perfect pizza has a lot to do with the ratio of cheese to sauce in my view) with a thin, crispy outer layer and the meats spread throughout. It's delicious.
I'm also a huge fan of thin crust. A nice Pagliai's sausage and pepperoni pizza is highly crushable and pairs nicely with a light beer, or if you want to stay on brand, perhaps a Peroni. If you want to really go thin crust, and I think this is a perfect option in the summer, Basta has a very good Neopolitan style thin crust salsiccia pizza with just the right amount of spice that won't leave you too full.
On the sandwich front, again it depends on what you're craving. If it's subs, there's this beauty from my wife's home town. It comes with turkey, ham, roast beef, salami and bologna on a bed of Swiss, American, pepper jack, colby jack and mozzarella, all slathered with way too much mayo and topped with your choice of lettuce, tomato, onion and peppers. We have to stop EVERY time we're in the area.
More locally, NoDo has a delicious steak sandwich on ciabata that has a house sauce, but what really sets it over the top is the garlic aioli they serve with the fries (which are tremendous in their own right). Dip that sammy in the aioli and my goodness.
I'll eat just about any sort of burger or chicken sandwich, provided you don't destroy it by masking every flavor cooked in with garbage like pickles and mustard, and you can never go wrong with a nice pulled pork or barbecue chicken sandwich. There are frankly WAY too many types of sandwich and infinite combinations to ever truly choose just one
And that's to say nothing of the great "is a hot dog/taco a sandwich?" debate...
Lightning Round
SoCal_Hawk was kind enough to supply an entire lightning round worth of questions posed as one single post so let's hit them one by one here.
A few questions
Does Connor Mac start next year?
Probably, but he shouldn't. A lot will depend on when he is medically able to play in my view.
With Joe T and Bohannan at the 1 & 2, respectively, where does CMAC fit in?
The most logical spot, to me, is at the 3 assuming Joe Wieskamp isn't coming back (he isn't). He wouldn't need to shoot much there and provides another ball handler who can slash a bit or post up.
It's looking less and less likely he'll fit into the top 5, right?
Connor won't get any minutes at the 5 next year with Rebraca, Ogundele, Mulvey and Murray. I doubt he gets many at the 4 either.
If he doesn't, what does that do to his prioritization of baseball vs. basketball? Does he start prioritizing baseball, especially since he wasn't able to play this season?
I don't know that it changes much. Despite his prospects out of high school, I think his most logical next step after Iowa is to move into coaching. I have no idea if he has an interest there, but it sure seems like it would make sense.
Are you friends IRL with any of these posters on BHGP? Why or why not?
I have never met a single one of you in real life, which is something that should be changed come this fall if things keep trending the way they are. I would consider the staff here to be real life friends and we have done a few virtual happy hours and the like to actually see each other, but even our staff is largely not local to Iowa City so difficult to catch up too much.
Which is more likely:
ISM lands a starting role as a slot WR with Vikings in 2021
Petras awarded 3rd team All-B1G (or better) in 2021
and what would that say about the player's development?
I think ISM has a real chance to carve out a starting role in Minnesota. I don't know that it's in the slot long term but that's where the opening is now. He will get a look on special teams and with the age of Adam Thielen, I think he has a future there. I also don't think it's terribly likely Petras makes All-Big Ten this season. It's possible, but given the drop off in the WR room, the obvious strength in the run game and the style of play in Iowa City, I think it's an uphill battle. I don't know that it says anything about the development of either, but it certainly is something for fans to discuss.
And let's hit one more just for fun.
Just how corrupt and greedy is/are the leadership of the major sports leagues?
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/31427293/oakland-athletics-start-looking-relocating-elsewhere-sources-say
"…commissioner Rob Manfred has in the past also cited Portland, Oregon; Vancouver, British Columbia; Nashville, Tennessee; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Montreal as potential expansion sites for franchises."
Barf. Barf. Barf. Barf. Barf. (I think Charlotte may be about the best option of those for an MLB team, but I'd prefer my A's get a nice stadium deal in Oakland).
Very. Leadership, not just in major sports leagues, but also in the NCAA and in my experience really most companies, organizations, etc. is VERY greedy. Maybe it's a bad thing. In some cases it's a good thing.
Alright, that's it for this week. Keep up the excellent questions and hopefully we'll be back with more actual sports talk next week.


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Google I/O Android App has got a update with new content and some new features. This big tech event, Google I/O 2017 is going to held from 17th of May to 20th of May. Google is working hard to make this event a huge success by launching new build of Android O and many other things.
The Attendees who are going to take a part in I/O 2017, for them, this is a must have app. It packs all the details of events with locations, timings and much more. This new update has also brought in the feature to reserve seats for the events you want to watch.
There are many other features as you will get every detail for every event over at IO 2017. It is going to be updated simultaneously by Google for fresh information. So, you following the I/O 2017? hen do install Google Io 2017 app onto your device.
There is going to be live stream of Keynote and few other major events. Later, all the things will be made available on the YouTube.
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Do you need a break?
How do you typically distract yourself from sadness and other craptastic feelings? Is it work, food, booze, Internet?
What does this habit look like specifically? Doing tasks you should delegate, late-night ice cream, wine after work, scrolling through Instagram?
The other day I was feeling… well, terrible. My mind was going, going, going with Nothing I do matters and Nobody likes me. It was showing me helpful images, like that time my friend told me, "My mom says you can't ride to school with us anymore because you're too grumpy in the morning."
In these moments, one of my least effective self-soothing techniques is social media. But it's more nuanced than that. I'm refreshing the Facebook notifications, hoping that someone commented on my recent post. I'm looking for new Instagram hearts, then reading through the names to disregard anyone who might have engaged because they're trying to build their own following.
It's more than mere distraction—it's personal.
One of my least effective self-soothing techniques is social media. And it's more than mere distraction—it's personal.
I'm taking a break from social media because I have a hunch that the way I'm using it is detrimental to my wellness, my creativity, and my sense of connection with other people. (And because the moment I imagined doing so, I felt excited. Your body knows best!)
I know people who have recently experimented with a 30-day reflective break from alcohol, a break from added sugar, a commitment to delegate the tasks that they excel at but distract from the important strategic work that no one else can do…
So much has changed in our world. Why wouldn't our needs and the ways we meet them change, too?
Notice what you compulsively turn to even when it doesn't give you what you need. Imagine the spaciousness of taking a break from this behavior. Feel that space filling up with what you truly crave… love, appreciation, peace. Don't expect to be fearless, or to know how it will fill up. Just take a second to feel in your body whether a break feels more like freedom than restraint. If it does, you're onto something good, my friend!
Take a second to feel in your body whether a break feels more like freedom than restraint.
What do you want to take a break from?
PC: Kimberly Dovi


BIOS stands for "basic input/output system." This software checks the health of your computer's hardware and allows Windows to start. When you turn on your PC, its BIOS runs a power-on self-test (POST) to ensure that the machine's devices (hard drive, sound card, keyboard, and the like) are connected and working properly. If the test finds no problems, the BIOS turns over control of your PC to another piece of software, typically the operating system.
Every PC has a BIOS, and you may need to access yours from time to time. Inside the BIOS you can set a password, manage hardware, and change the boot sequence. The BIOS user interface is straightforward and easy to access, but you should take caution when exploring the BIOS--don't change settings if you don't know what they do.
On this PC, you'd press F2 to enter the BIOS setup menu.
If you don't catch it the first time, simply try again. Your computer's documentation may also tell you which key to press.
3. When you know the right key, start the computer again and press the key when the first screen pops up: You may hear a confirmation beep or see a new message. If you timed it correctly, you'll be in the BIOS within a few seconds.
Remember, don't make changes unless you've done your homework. Check out "Make Your PC Boot Faster With These BIOS Tweaks" for some ideas about tweaking the BIOS for speed.
Keep your BIOS current. The process of updating the BIOS is fast and simple. Note the existing version of the BIOS, and check the support section of your computer manufacturer's website for updates. For a step-by-step guide, read "How to Update Your BIOS."


The family cat has been a permanent fixture in the writer's 5-year-old son's life.
I am my 5-year-old's translator. While Kitty tucks my son into bed, I interpret her many meows. The two friends cuddle while he reads her a bedtime story, and then she and her boy chat about their day. He talks a lot about school, while she mostly says, "Hi," "Good night," and "Shall I tell you the meaning of life…?" Lately, her conversations have shortened, and I'm torn. I don't know if I should I tell my little guy what my attuned ears are hearing her say: Goodbye.
Feline Translator was not officially added to my résumé until recently. One bedtime, in order to amuse my kid, I answered every grunt and meow that Kitty made. She and I held a lengthy conversation about balls of string, ear rubbing, and the true definition of love. My son's eyes were bright and believing, and I've been her official interpreter ever since. I had no idea my job would suddenly become so complicated.
That particular day began like any other, which I suspect is how all bad days go. My husband and I dropped our son off at school and then went on to our vet appointment to check on our kitty's sudden cough. Two hours later, we left with an ultrasound photo showing us a tumor and terminal cancer. We were unprepared.
For the eight years I've been with her, I'd always been diligent in my care—almost obsessive. I've been surrounded by pets all my life, so I know how their health can turn on a dime. This is why I've provided check-ups on top of check-ups, all in an effort to avoid the hollow, powerless hole that engulfed me when the vet gave us her diagnosis. Holding my kitty close, I begged her to stay—if not for my sake, then for my son's. I explained to her through my sobs that it wasn't just my heart at stake now.
I waited to translate an answer.
When my kid was born, Kitty was already a much-loved part of our family. We rescued her at six months old, and once home with my husband and I, she immediately inserted herself into our clan. She came to us already ours. Kitty cuddled with my husband, our two dogs, and my preggo belly. She talked to my son before he was born. So, when I hear my kid shout, "I love you, Kitty!" my eyes cloud over with happy tears because I know he's experiencing a true love connection.
I figured my boy and his cat would have many more conversations and many more adventures together. In my mind, I was ready for him to draw Picasso-esque renderings of the two of them on some fun adventure. I'd find a place of honor for them on our refrigerator where we could all (including Kitty) admire them. "Mom! What's she saying?" The artist would ask. I'd tell him that she loved his work (even though she was secretly asking for turkey slices from the fridge).
Cats have nine lives, but my cat will not. There will be no refrigerator drawings, because the doctors tell me we don't have much time—months, if we're lucky. I hope our luck holds out, because maybe time will show me how to tell my son. How do I tell him that his best kitty friend only has a handful of bedtimes left? Do I tell my 5-year-old our loving friend is dying?
The knowledge that my kitty's illness is terminal follows me around like an eerie cat-shaped shadow. I'm stuck in a state of powerless grief wondering what to do next. Feeling helpless isn't totally a foreign feeling to this newish mama; because as my kid grows I realize (again and again) how limited I am in the ways I'm able to help him. This is just one more example. There are many days I want a re-do so I can help my son avoid those hurt feelings or that scraped knee. My kid may feel the pain in his bruised knee, but I always feel it more intensely in my heart. Those are the days I try my best to feel helpful instead of helpless—like now.
My son knows that our kitty has had a little "cat cold," but in the time since finding out about our cat's cancer her stomach has been shaved and she's lost weight. My son hasn't noticed. I thought about pointing out these differences in an effort to prepare him for the huge change that's to come, but I've chosen not to.
All he sees is a cat he loves, and to him she is perfect. His is still a world where cats talk, moms translate, and life has magic. I may not be able to give my cat a longer life, but I can give my son more perfect time with her. I can let him have his joyful magic without the eerie shadows. If she could really talk, I wonder if she'd tell me I'm doing the right thing.


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NISQUALLY RIVER COUNCIL SUBJECT OF WELL-WRITTEN TNT STORY
The Tacoma News Tribune's (TNT) Rob Carson wrote this fabulous and well-researched story on the Nisqually River and the Nisqaully River Council :
"Revolution on the Nisqually River
Nisqually council works, successfully, for cooperative conservation
"For people who spend their lives studying rivers, the Nisqually is a model made in heaven. Its only 78 miles long, but it flows through such spectacular, varied terrain that it makes an ideal living laboratory for geologists, hydrologists and biologists.
MULTIMEDIA: View photo gallery of the Nisqually River corridor
From its birthplace on Mount Rainier through pristine forests to where it enters Puget Sound, the Nisqually River is a Pacific Northwest gem….
The Nisqually is a model in another important way as well.
For 20 years, it has been watched over by the Nisqually River Council, a loosely knit group of landowners, business people and government representatives who rely on consensus and a mutual appreciation of the watershed.
As the global search for ways to balance economic and environmental needs grows more desperate, the Nisqually plan has begun to stand out as a prototype. The 18-member council has had such success that its philosophical basis is being used as a blueprint for environmental management around the world.
The Nisqually process sounds simple, but it involves revolutionary shifts in thinking about politics, economics and lifestyles.
In short, rather than saving the river from people, the Nisqually River Council tries to save the river for people. Its members use collaboration instead of government regulations and the courts, looking for places where economic values and natures values align….
THE NISQUALLY RIVER COUNCIL
The 18-member Nisqually River Council is made up of representatives from:
State Department of Fish and Wildlife
State Parks and Recreation Commission
State Department of Natural Resources
State Department of Ecology
Nisqually Tribe
Citizens Advisory Committee (two seats)
Washington Conservation Commission
University of Washington/Pack Forest
U.S. Army at Fort Lewis
Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge
Tacoma Public Utilities
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Thanks Liz, My interest is water quality. Yelm was somehow forcded do a Comprehensive Plan and Environmental Impact Statement (long resisted)on this huge development. The CP states that Yelm has no capital facilities for water and sewage. I guess that means their wells do not meet State requirements. Thru the years at City Council Meetings, there have been a number of studies and test sites but no new clean wells in use. The EIS says Yelm will be looking to surface water for development. There is a lawsuit here, but it is to protect existing water rights. The County is co-partner with Yelm for the development. I don't understand health and finance issues for residents. The CP and EIS is available at Yelm. Not sure how what you say fits but have hopes it will be sorted out. Nice article.
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Long time no see :) . But now I've thought of a relatively better idea that might break my 'Developer's Writing Block'. Quite simply, I'll choose a few of my own tweets, will add value and transform those 140 characters into a shiny new Blog Post . LOL. Now how hard could that be !
So let's begin. What do I need first? Right ! One of my brilliant tweets . Yeah but which one or is there at least one?
Tried Twitter Search but that didn't help much in excavating those old tweets which must have been good and now gone missing ;) . Luckily, I've subscribed to a RSS feed of my favorite tweets in my Google Reader. It was for some of my experiments that you can check under Twitter section of the Blog - it will come in handy to find my own favorite tweets easily. Settled for a recent one ;) . Rest is easy just copy-paste; the most frequent activity performed by a Programmer - when they are not wasting time over internet. There you go!
rmtiwari: you don't need to advertise that 'you're expert /cool /smart etc. You will be *told* when you are & 'll have to live with the consequences .
There wasn't much thought really. To be fair, it's twitter and we have to say something within 140 chars.
The context is subconsciously derived from what is going on around us and the response is pretty much just..anything really that seems right at that point but may not have the support of a proper logical thinking. It could have been just a casual opinion or at best an intuition with some relation to underlying beliefs.
But my Intuition is that 'Intuition is a good thing'. I know, worth tweeting ;). But let's get some peer review for this statement and verify before releasing it for a wider audience.
Who do you think is the 'Peer' of these mediocre and relatively introvert Programmers? Of course it's Google in general but we normally settle for no less than Albert Einstein. He must have said something about Intuition within 140 characters. Verified.
' The only real valuable thing is intuition.' - Albert Einstein.
My suspicion is that Einstein knew about the importance of these quotes to the future generation, especially during twitter-era, hence invested considerable time perfecting these one liners. In fact, there might just be a co-relation between speed of light, number of bits in a byte and the fix limit of 140 characters in twitter. I'll leave you to figure that out.
I am still on the preparation phase of this post but accidentally clicked the 'Publish Post' instead of 'Save'. Not my fault as both the buttons are conveniently placed together in Blogger. So I'll just tweet below remarks, blame @blogger and publish this post anyway.


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Chison Paek (hangul : 백지선) (né le  à Séoul en Corée du Sud) est un joueur professionnel de hockey sur glace. Il est né avec le prénom de Chison mais est rebaptisé Jim quand ses parents et lui immigrent au Canada Il a joué principalement dans la ligue internationale de hockey (LIH) et  dans la Ligue nationale de hockey (LNH). Il évoluait au poste de défenseur et remporte la Coupe Stanley à deux reprises avec les Penguins de Pittsburgh en 1991 et 1992. Paek et sa femme Kortney ont deux enfants : Megan et Kyler.

Carrière

Carrière de joueur
Jim Paek commence sa carrière professionnelle dans la ligue de hockey de l'Ontario en évoluant pour les Generals d'Oshawa en 1984. Lors de l'été 1985, il est choisi lors du repêchage d'entrée dans la Ligue nationale de hockey par les Penguins de Pittsburgh lors de la neuvième ronde, il est le  choisi. Il ne rejoint pas immédiatement la LNH mais continue pendant encore une saison dans l'OHL puis rejoint les Lumberjacks de Muskegon de la Ligue internationale de hockey, l'équipe affiliée aux Penguins.

Il commence la saison 1990-1991 en jouant les matchs internationaux de l'équipe du Canada mais rejoint à la fin de la saison l'effectif des Penguins, jouant trois matchs de la saison régulière. Il devient le premier joueur d'origine coréenne à évoluer dans la grande ligue nord-américaine. Il participe alors aux séries éliminatoires et remporte avec les Penguins la Coupe Stanley. Il inscrit le premier but de sa carrière dans la LNH lors de la finale de la Coupe. L'année d'après, il remporte encore une fois la Coupe lors du doublet des Penguins. À l'issue de la saison, il est nommé meilleure recrue des Penguins.

Deux saisons plus tard, il rejoint en cours de saison les Kings de Los Angeles en échange de Tomas Sandström. Après seulement 18 matchs sous les couleurs des Kings, il part jouer pour les Sénateurs d'Ottawa pour la saison 1994-1995.

Encore une fois, il ne joue pas beaucoup de la saison et quitte les Sénateurs pour la LIH où il portera successivement les couleurs des Aeros de Houston, des Moose du Minnesota, des Moose du Manitoba et des Lumberjacks de Cleveland. En 2000, il quitte l'Amérique du Nord et rejoint la Grande-Bretagne et les Nottingham Panthers. Il prend sa retraite en 2003 après un court passage d'un an dans la ligue de hockey de l'Ouest du Canada pour les Aces d'Anchorage.

Carrière d'entraîneur
En signant pour les Aces, Jim Paek s'est également engagé en tant qu'entraîneur des défenseurs de l'équipe. Après avoir raccroché les patins, il rejoint les Seals d'Orlando dans la . Jim Paek est actuellement l'entraîneur adjoint des Griffins de Grand Rapids de la Ligue américaine de hockey, club associé aux Red Wings de Détroit.

En , il est nommé à la tête de la sélection nationale sud-coréenne.

Statistiques
Pour les significations des abréviations, voir statistiques du hockey sur glace.

| 1984-1985 || Generals d'Oshawa || LHO || 54 || 2 || 13 || 15 || 57 || 5 || 1 || 0 || 1 || 9
|-
| 1985-1986 || Generals d'Oshawa || LHO || 64 || 5 || 21 || 26 || 122 || 6 || 0 || 1 || 1 || 9
|-
| 1986-1987 || Generals d'Oshawa || LHO || 57 || 5 || 17 || 22 || 75 || 26 || 1 || 14 || 15 || 43
|-
| 1987-1988 || Lumberjacks de Muskegon || LIH || 82 || 7 || 52 || 59 || 141 || 6 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 29
|-
| 1988-1989 || Lumberjacks de Muskegon || LIH || 80 || 3 || 54 || 57 || 96 || 14 || 1 || 10 || 11 || 24
|-
| 1989-1990 || Lumberjacks de Muskegon|| LIH || 81 || 9 || 41 || 50 || 115 || 15 || 1 || 10 || 11 || 41
|-
| 1990-9191 || Équipe du Canada || Intl || 48 || 2 || 12 || 14 || 24 || - || - || - || - || -
|-
| 1990-1991 || Penguins de Pittsburgh || LNH || 3 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 9 || 8 || 1 || 0 || 1 || 2
|-
| 1991-1992 || Penguins de Pittsburgh || LNH || 49 || 1 || 7 || 8 || 36 || 19 || 0 || 4 || 4 || 6
|-
| 1992-1993 || Penguins de Pittsburgh || LNH || 77 || 3 || 15 || 18 || 64 || - || - || - || - || -
|-
| 1993-1994 || Penguins de Pittsburgh || LNH || 41 || 0 || 4 || 4 || 8 || - || - || - || - || -
|-
| 1993-1994 || Kings de Los Angeles || LNH || 18 || 1 || 1 || 2 || 10 || - || - || - || - || -
|-
| 1994-1995 || Sénateurs d'Ottawa || LNH || 29 || 0 || 2 || 2 || 28 || - || - || - || - || -
|-
| 1995-1996 || Aeros de Houston || LIH || 25 || 2 || 5 || 7 || 20 || - || - || - || - || -
|-
| 1995-1996 || Moose du Minnesota || LIH || 42 || 1 || 11 || 12 || 54 || - || - || - || - || -
|-
| 1996-1997 || Moose du Manitoba || LIH || 9 || 0 || 2 || 2 || 12 || - || - || - || - || -
|-
| 1996-1997 || Lumberjacks de Cleveland || LIH || 74 || 3 || 25 || 28 || 36 || 14 || 0 || 1 || 1 || 2
|-
| 1997-1998 || Lumberjacks de Cleveland|| LIH || 75 || 7 || 9 || 16 || 48 || 10 || 2 || 1 || 3 || 4
|-
| 1998-1999 || Lumberjacks de Cleveland|| LIH || 65 || 4 || 11 || 15 || 34 || - || - || - || - || -
|-
| 1998-1999 || Aeros de Houston || LIH || 11 || 0 || 3 || 3 || 2 || 19 || 2 || 4 || 6 || 10
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| 1999-2000 || Lumberjacks de Cleveland|| LIH || 69 || 2 || 20 || 22 || 27 || 9 || 0 || 2 || 2 || 2
|-
| 2000-2001 || Nottingham Panthers || ISL || 47 || 3 || 21 || 24 || 28 || 6 || 1 || 2 || 3 || 2
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| 2001-2002 || Nottingham Panthers || ISL || 5 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 4 || 6 || 0 || 1 || 1 || 4
|-
| 2001-2002 || Aces d'Anchorage || WCHL || 40 || 1 || 28 || 29 || 12 || - || - || - || - || -
|-
| 2002-2003 || Nottingham Panthers|| ISL || 32 || 1 || 10 || 11 || 10 || 17 || 0 || 4 || 4 || 18

| 217 || 5 || 29 || 34 || 155 || 27 || 1 || 4 || 5 || 8

Références

Naissance en avril 1967
Naissance à Séoul
Joueur canadien de hockey sur glace
Joueur sud-coréen de hockey sur glace
Choix de repêchage des Penguins de Pittsburgh
Joueur des Penguins de Pittsburgh
Joueur des Kings de Los Angeles
Joueur des Sénateurs d'Ottawa
Joueur des Lumberjacks de Muskegon (1984-1992)
Joueur des Aeros de Houston (LIH)
Joueur du Moose du Minnesota
Joueur du Moose du Manitoba (LIH)
Joueur des Lumberjacks de Cleveland
Joueur des Aces d'Anchorage
Joueur des Nottingham Panthers
Joueur des Generals d'Oshawa
Champion de la Coupe Stanley
Défenseur de hockey sur glace
Entraîneur canadien de hockey sur glace

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Command Line Tools
==================

This directory contains command line tools for RAPPOR analysis.

Analysis Tools
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### decode-dist

Decode a distribution -- requires a "counts" file (summed bits from reports),
map file, and a params file.  See `test.sh decode-dist` in this dir for an
example.

### decode-assoc

Decode a joint distribution between 2 variables ("association analysis").  See
`test.sh decode-assoc-R` or `test.sh decode-assoc-cpp` in this dir for an
example.

Currently it only supports associating strings vs. booleans.

### Setup

Both of these tools are written in R, and require several R libraries to be
installed (see `../setup.sh r-packages`).

`decode-assoc` also shells out to a native binary written in C++ if
`--em-executable` is passed.  This requires a C++ compiler (see
`analysis/cpp/run.sh`).  You can run `test.sh decode-assoc-cpp` to test it.

Helper Tools
------------

These are simple Python implementations of tools needed for analysis.  At
Google, Chrome uses alternative C++/Go implementations of these tools.

### sum-bits

Given a CSV file with RAPPOR reports (IRRs), produce a "counts" CSV file on
stdout.  This is the `m x (k+1)` matrix that is used in the R analysis (where m
= #cohorts and k = report width in bits).

### hash-candidates

Given a list of candidates on stdin, produce a CSV file of hashes (the "map
file").  Each row has `m x h` cells (where m = #cohorts and h = #hashes)

See the `regtest.sh` script for examples of how these tools are invoked.

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The alternative trio is sprouting.
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BEN KWELLER WON'T BE SEEING THE INSIDE of a high school classroom this year, though he could have penned a pretty nifty "What I Did on My Summer Vacation" essay. The fifteen-year-old is the singer, songwriter, guitarist, and pianist for Radish, an astonishingly tuneful alternative-rock trio that has spent the past six months entertaining what he terms "ridiculous" offers from more than a dozen major record companies. The wooing process included visits to his Greenville home by such music biz luminaries as Elektra Records president Seymour Stein and Interscope Records founder Jimmy Iovine; on a trip to Los Angeles, Ben was granted an audience with Madonna, who courted him on behalf of her Maverick label.
The winner, however, was Mercury Records, which cut a deal with Radish that's said to be in the seven-figure range. Long a label whose marquee acts were the likes of Bon Jovi and Def Leppard, Mercury is remaking itself under the direction of its new president, industry legend Danny Goldberg. Goldberg's track record meant a lot to the band. "He was a big reason for the success of Led Zeppelin and Nirvana and the comeback of Kiss," Ben says. "He and I talk a lot. We have a real good personal relationship." Goldberg is equally effusive about Kweller. "Ben's songwriting is really brilliant," he says. "I think it's extremely competitive with the best of what I've heard from anybody of any age."
How to explain the prodigy's emergence? Ben's father, physician Howie Kweller, is a former drummer who spent some time on the cocktail-lounge circuit but looks back most fondly on his junior high school jams with guitarist Nils Lofgren in Bethesda, Maryland. Likewise, Ben started playing piano at age five and guitar around age ten—as soon as his hands were big enough. He started writing his own material shortly after, and Howie quickly realized his son was more than just your average garage rocker. "He's so committed to it," the senior Kweller says with pride. "Sometimes I watch him play and I go, 'This kid's from outer space. This is some stranger.'"
Howie was still friendly with Lofgren three decades after their school days, so this March, during spring break, Ben and his bandmates—17-year-old drummer John David Kent and 22-year-old bassist Bryan Blur—recorded three songs with Lofgren producer Roger Greenawalt at Sheffield Studios in Phoenix, Maryland. The resulting tapes attracted attention on their merits, but when the labels discovered how young Ben is, the interest became more intense.
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.. those E.B.T. cards are public benefit cards . Depending on the state , they can be just for food stamps , or they can contain welfare benefits ….
.. you heared me right : it is illegal .
.. first , it is not a law , one that is passed by Congress . It is not that at all . It is an Executive Action , taken by His Lordship . He started it back in 2012 , I believe . He has now renewed it for another two years , until 2016 ..
.. what a mess .
.. [-] these kids need to be questioned — where are they from , why are they coming ? — the obvious . Also , the press should be allowed to interview the older ones ….


Smith explains methodological individualism and its implications for the existence of institutions and other social phenomena.
Nobody ventures to deny that nations, states, municipalities, parties, religious communities, are real factors determining the course of human events. Methodological individualism, far from contesting the significance of such collective wholes, considers it as one of its main tasks to describe and to analyze their becoming and their disappearing, their changing structures and their operation. And it chooses the only method fitted to solve this problem satisfactorily.
Methodological individualism does not mean that only the individual human being is real or that social phenomena do not exist. It says only that the individual is able to think, feel, and act. We can impute thoughts, purposes, and values only to the singular human being; when we apply such terms to "society" we enter the domain of metaphor. However, this does not mean that "society" is not "real" or cannot be said to "exist" in some fashion. Many things exist that cannot think, act, or feel.
Classical liberals have been criticized for their view that the individual is the ultimate unit of explanation in the social sciences, and that social institutions can be explained solely in terms of the beliefs and actions of individuals. Methodological individualism was taken for granted by most eighteenth-century social philosophers—especially Adam Ferguson, Adam Smith and other Scottish thinkers. It was not until the nineteenth century that various types of social holism challenged this view.
Social holism has been defended from various perspectives, but, generally speaking, it is the doctrine that social "wholes" cannot be solely and adequately explained in terms of the actions and beliefs of individuals. Holism, according to a popular if simplistic definition, is the doctrine that a social whole (e.g., an institution) is more than the sum of its individual parts—or, alternatively, that the whole is in some way prior to the individuals who comprise it.
The laws of the phenomena of society are and can be nothing but the laws of the actions and passions of human beings united together in the social state. Men, however, in a state of society are still men; their actions and passions are obedient to the laws of individual human nature. Men are not, when brought together, converted into another kind of substance with different properties, as hydrogen and oxygen are different from water….Human beings in society have no properties but those which are derived from, and may be resolved into, the laws of the nature of individual man.
Mill's argument overlooks a major form of holism, which does not claim that individual human beings are qualitatively transformed by social interaction. Holists more often contend that human interaction generates social wholes, or institutions, which differ qualitatively from the individuals who comprise them.
Mill has been criticized by other methodological individualists for his supposed defense of psychologism. This is the label given by Karl Popper to the view that all social phenomena can be explained in terms of the intentions, purposes, and motives of individual human beings. Although psychologism rightly insists that we must reduce the "actions" and "behavior" of collective entities to the actions and behavior of individuals, it erroneously maintains that such explanations must be psychological, i.e., that they must ultimately refer to the conscious states and dispositions of acting agents. This is a serious error, because many social institutions were not consciously designed but emerged instead as the unintended consequences of human action.
Mankind, in following the present state of their minds, in striving to remove inconveniences, or to gain apparent and contiguous advantages, arrive at ends which even their imagination could not anticipate, and pass on, like other animals, in the track of their nature, without perceiving its end….Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
We are deeply indebted to Adam Ferguson, David Hume, Adam Smith, John Millar and other luminaries of the Scottish Enlightenment for our understanding of unintended consequences and their role in the development of unplanned social institutions. And it is scarcely coincidental that those sociological pioneers were methodological individualists. None would have seriously entertained the notion that social phenomena are anything more than individuals and their recurring, patterned relationships.
How can it be that institutions which serve the common welfare and are extremely significant for its development come into being without a common will directed toward establishing them?
Karl Popper noted that an "action which proceeds precisely according to intention does not create a problem for social science." In a similar vein, F.A. Hayek (The Counter-Revolution of Science) maintained that modern social theory, especially economics, grew from a desire to explain the origin and development of undesigned institutions.
The theory of spontaneous order has been taken up by many prominent sociologists (as we see, for example, in Robert Merton's "empirical functionalism" and in Anthony Giddens's theory of "structuration"). It was also explored extensively by three classical liberals over the past three centuries: Adam Smith in the eighteenth, Herbert Spencer in the nineteenth, and F.A. Hayek in the twentieth. The significance of spontaneous order theory for methodological individualism is that it offers an attractive third alternative to the extremes of psychologism and holism. The methodological individualist can readily admit that social institutions result from something more than individual actions—if by this we mean the intended outcomes of such actions. We may also speak of institutions as possessing emergent properties—if by this we mean properties that emerged spontaneously, quite apart from intentions of individual actors.


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The Money Chronichles, Volume 4: And I'm Supposed to Trust These Guys With My Credit?
Today both Nancy and I received offers for a credit card. It's not unusual, we shred the equivalent of a small forest of these things each year. Today's had a funny twist.
For the record, both of these offers (in separate envelopes) came from Capital One (they are the "What's in your wallet" guys). But when I opened the envelope addressed to Nancy, the return card was addressed to me. When I opened my envelope it was addressed to one of my neighbors. Presumably my neighbor has the one addressed to me. Or it could be a massive mix up where dozens of us are getting each others' offers.
These offers succeed to the extent that they convince me to use their card. Suffice it to say they didn't impress me and I have no desire to do business with them.
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It Just Doesn't Pay to be Homophobic Anymore
You can probably guess my bias from the title of this blog, but I've been following 2 current issues with great interest: Proposition 8 and "Don't Ask, Don't Tell (the current policy on gays serving in the US military)." It appears to me that equal rights for the gay population is only a matter of time.
Proposition 8 was a ballot measure here in California to amend the state constitution to prohibit same sex marriage. There is some background to this: in March of 2000 California voted to prohibit same sex marriage by state law with Propsition 22. This law was overturned on May 15, 2008 by the California Supreme Court who ruled 4-3 that Prop 22 is unconstitutional.
People who oppose gay marriage then decided that the best way to combat this was to pass another proposition that amends the state constitution. After all, the constitution can't be unconstitutional. Backed by big bucks from the Church of Latter Day Saints (the Mormons) and the Knights of Columbus, Proposition 8 passed with 52.3% of the vote. Supporters thought they were done.
They weren't. On May 26, 2009 the California Supreme Court determined that Proposition 8 was constitutional, but opponents of Prop 8 then went to federal court on January 11, 2009, arguing that Prop 8 is unconstitutional of the Federal Constitution. The plaintiffs, Kristen Kelly and Sandra Steir, filed because they were denied a marriage license. The defendant was Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger by virtue of being governor. In a funny twist, neither Governor Schwartzenegger nor Attorney General Jerry Brown chose to actively defend Prop 8. Instead, the defense of Prop 8 fell to a group called Protect Marriage.
The case came before Judge John Walker. This appeared to be good news for the defendants as he ruled in a previous case that "Gay Olympics" was a copyright violation against the U.S. Olympic Committee and they had to change their name to the Gay Games. He had also been appointed to the bench by President George H.W. Bush. On August 4, 2010 Judge Walker surprised most of us by finding for the plaintiffs, deciding that Proposition 8 is a violation of the 14th Amendment. It's now on appeal but it's funny to see that all the people who liked John Walker before his decision have now decided that he's gay (since he's never been married) and the decision has no merit. Sounds like sour grapes to me.
Meanwhile, in the military, they are still trying to decide what to do with men and women who are willing to fight and die for our freedom who happen to be gay. When President Clinton was running in 1992 there was pressure from the gay community to remove the ban on gays serving in the military. During the campaign he essentially promised to repeal the ban. Alas, once in office he faced more opposition than he expected and he bowed to that pressure. In 1993 Congress passed a bill called "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," and President Clinton signed it. Simply put, it legislated that nobody is allowed to ask if a service member is gay, and a gay servicemember is required to keep his/her orientation a secret. If (s)he says or does anything to indicate his/her gay orientation, (s)he can be immediately discharged from the service. Since passage 14,000 servicemembers have been discharged for being gay. In the gay community, DADT (Don't Ask, Don't Tell) has been seen as open season on the gay population.
With the election of Barack Obama in 2008, the debate began again. As I write this the bill to repeal DADT is moving through Congress. The House has already voted to repeal it, and it's stuck in the Senate. It's interesting to see what's being said. My most interesting person is Senator John McCain. At first blush you'd think he'd be the "go to" guy on this issue given his background. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and was a pilot during Vietnam. He was shot down and spent 5 1/2 years as a POW in North Vietnam. If ever there was a case where a group needed unit cohesion, it would be here. He has opposed DADT and it was easy to do this when the the leaders of the military opposed it. In fact, in 1986 he said this: "The day that the leadership of the military comes to me and says, 'Senator, we ought to change the policy,' then I think we ought to consider seriously changing it."
He probably never expected this to happen, but it has. On December 2, 2010 the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen said this:
My personal views on this issue remain unchanged. I am convinced that repeal of the law governing Don't Ask, Don't Tell is the right thing to do. Back in February, when I testified to this sentiment, I also said that I believed the men and women of the Armed Forces could accommodate such a change. But I did not know it for a fact. Now, I do.
And so what was my personal opinion is now my professional opinion. Repeal of the law will not prove an unacceptable risk to military readiness. Unit cohesion will not suffer if our units are well-led. And families will not encourage their loved ones to leave the service in droves.
He made this statement against the backdrop of a study released by the Pentagon on November 30, 2010. The survey reviewed the beliefs of 115,000 active duty members of the military and 44,200 military spouses. About 70% of them indicated they had no problem with the idea of allowing gays to serve. Those in uniform lead those out of uniform: only 58% of all Americans favor this. Interestingly, the majority of both groups favor repealing DADT. And the 115,000? Well, 69% report that they have already worked with a gay servicemember and 92% of them said it had a positive impact or no impact on their working relationship.
So here we are: the President, the Secretary of Defense, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff all support the repeal of DADT. And Senator McCain? He has abandoned his previous statement and now says: "This was a political promise made by an inexperienced president or candidate for presidency." At no point does he admit he abandoned his earlier promise. Then again, he's the guy who ran with Sarah Palin.
Of the people who still oppose DADT, they all pretty much respect Barry Goldwater who said this in 1993:
After more than 50 years in the military and politics, I am still amazed to see how upset people can get over nothing. Lifting the ban on gays in the military isn't exactly nothing – but it's pretty damned close
Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar. They'll still be serving long after we're all dead and buried. That should not surprise anyone.
But most Americans should be shocked to know that while the country's economy is going down the tubes, the military has wasted half a billion dollars over the past decade chasing down gays and running them out of the armed services.
It's no great secret that military studies have proved again and again that there's no valid reason for keeping the ban on gays. Some thought gays were crazy, but then found that wasn't true. Then they decided that gays were a security risk, but again the Department of Defense decided that wasn't so. In fact, one study by the Navy in 1956 that was never made public found gays to be good security risks. Even Larry Korb, President Reagan's man in charge of implementing the Pentagon ban on gays, now admits that it was a dumb idea. No wonder my friend Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense under President Bush, called it "a bit of an old chestnut"
When the facts lead to one conclusion, I say it's time to act – not to hide. The country and the military know that eventually the ban will be lifted. The only remaining questions are how much muck we will all be dragged through, and how many brave Americans like Tom Paniccia and Margarethe Cammermeyer will have their lives and careers destroyed in a senseless attempt to stall the inevitable.
Some in congress think I'm wrong. They say we absolutely must continue to discriminate, or all hell will break loose. Who knows? (they say) perhaps our soldiers may even take up arms against each other.
Well, that's just stupid.
Years ago I was a lieutenant in charge of an all-black unit. Military leaders at the time believed that blacks lacked leadership potential, period. That seems ridiculous now – as it should. Now each and every man and woman who serves this nation takes orders from a black man, our own Gen. Colin Powell.
Nobody thought that blacks or women could ever be integrated into the military. Many thought that an all-volunteer force could never protect our national interest. Well, it has and despite those who feared the worst – I among them – we are still the best and will continue to be.
The point is that decisions are always a lot easier to make in hindsight, but we seldom have that luxury. That's why the future of our country depends on leadership, and that's what we need now.
I served in the armed forces. I have flown more than 150 of the best fighter planes and bombers this country manufactured. I founded the Arizona National Guard. I chaired the Senate Armed Services Committee. And I think it's high time to pull the curtains on this charade of policy.
What should undermine our readiness would be a compromise policy, like "don't ask, don't tell." That compromise doesn't deal with the issue, it tries to hide it.
We have wasted enough precious time, money and talent trying to persecute and pretend. It's time to stop burying our heads in the sand and denying reality for the sake of politics. It's time to deal with this straight on and be done with it. It's time to get on with more important business.
The conservative movement, to which I subscribe, has as one of its basic tenets the belief that government should stay out of people's private lives. Government governs best when it governs least, and stays out of the impossible task of legislating morality. But legislating someone's version of morality is exactly what we do by perpetuating discrimination against gays.
When you get down to it no American able to serve should be allowed – much less given an excuse – to not serve his or her country. We need all our talent.
If I were in the Senate today I would rise on the Senate floor in support of our commander in chief. He may be a Democrat, but he happens to be right on this question.
Thank you Senator Goldwater (or, as your license plate said, AuH20).
Oh, and by the say, my favorite quotation from the report is this:
As one special operations force warfighter told us, 'We have a gay guy (in the unit). He's big, he's mean, and he kills lots of bad guys. No one cared that he was gay,'
Nowhere have I found a quotation that said: "I served with a homosexual and it hurt us as a unit." Let me know if you have.
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Welcome to San Diego (Where Even Santa Claus Shakes You Down)
Posted on December 6, 2010 by tom
On Saturday Nancy and I went down to Balboa Park for the annual celebration of December Nights. While there we saw this sign. It's a Christmas tradition that young children sit on Santa's lap, but most of us don't remember paying for this joy. But then again, I didn't spend my Santa years in San Diego.
It's a new, cynical, and expensive world. At least here in San Diego
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La Kabbale est une mystique juive.

Classification des anges
Les Kabbalistes (voir Zohar, Exode, 43) proposent la liste suivante :
Les Erelim avec Michaël pour chef,
Les Ishim avec Zephaniah pour chef,
Les Bene Elohim avec Hofniel pour chef,
Les Malakim avec Uriel pour chef,
Les Hashmalim avec Hashmal pour chef,
Les Tarshishim avec Tarshish pour chef,
Les Shinanim avec Zadkiel pour chef,
Les Cherubim avec Cherub pour chef,
Les Ophanim avec Raphaël pour chef,
Les Seraphim avec Iehoel pour chef.

Mais le Soda Raza propose, quant à lui, une répartition de 12 degrés d'anges répartis en sept cieux.

Dans le « Maseketh Atziluth », les dix rangs angéliques sont donnés selon l'ordre suivant :
Les Seraphim avec Shemuel ou Iehoel comme chef,
Les Ophanim avec Raphaël et Ophaniel comme chefs,
Les Cherubim avec Cherubiel comme chef,
Les Shinannim avec Zedekiel et Gabriel comme chefs,
Les Tarshishim avec Tarshish et Sabriel comme chefs,
Les Ishim avec Zaphaniel comme chef,
Les Hashmalim avec Hashmal comme un petit chef,
Les Malakim avec Uzziel comme chef,
Les Bene Elohim avec Hofniel comme chef,
Les Erelim avec Michaël comme chef.

Maïmonide, dans son « Yad ha-Hazakah, Yesode ha-Torah » parle de 10 rangs d'anges :
Les Hayyoth
Les Ophanim
Les Erelim
Les Hashmalim
Les Seraphim
Les Malakim
Les Elohim
Les Bene Elohim
Les Cherubim
Les Ishim

Noms des anges

Hayoth ha qodesh

Ce sont les Êtres de Sainteté, dirigés par l'archange Metatron.

Leur rôle est de préserver la vitalité de la création en laissant circuler le Souffle Divin. On ne peut s'en approcher qu'en état de parfait équilibre entre Amour et Unité.

Selon Ézéchiel, les Hayoth se tenaient à la rivière Kebar, et leur nombre était de 36.

Vehuiah
Yeliel
Sitael
Elemiah
Mahasiah
Lelahel
Achaiah
Cahetel

Ophanim

Ce sont les Roues (qui tournent), dirigés par l'archange Raziel. Selon le lexique hébreu : אופן 'owphan o-fawn' ou אפן 'ophan o-fawn'. Issu d'une racine inhabituelle signifiant « tourner » - 1) roue - 1a) roue de chariot - 1b) roue de la vision d'Ézéchiel.

Haziel
Aladiah
Lauviah
Hahaiah
Yezalel
Mebahel
Hariel
Hekamiah

Aralim

Ce sont les Trônes, dirigés par l'archange Binael (ou Tsaphkiel).

Lauviah
Caliel
Leuviah
Pahaliah
Nelchael
Yeiayel
Melahel
Haheuiah

Hashmalim

Ce sont les Étincelants ou les Dominations, dirigés par l'archange Tsadkiel.

Ce sont les exécutants des Cieux et ceux qui donnent les ordres. Ils décident ce qui doit être fait et accompli selon les buts cosmiques de Dieu.

Ce sont les H'asmalim (חשמלים) de la Kabbale qui sont attachés à la Sephirah 'Hessed. Ce nom est dérivé du Hashmal de la Vision d'Ezéchiel.

Ézékiel 1, 4-5 : « Je vis soudain un vent de tempête venant du nord qui poussait devant lui un énorme nuage sillonné d'éclairs. Ce nuage était entouré d'une clarté éblouissante. En son centre, il y avait l'éclat d'un métal (Hashmal) au milieu du feu.
En son milieu, je distinguais quelque chose qui ressemblait à quatre êtres vivants; par leur aspect, ils ressemblaient à des hommes ».

On les considère souvent comme des Hayyoth qui sont parfois silencieux (hash) et qui parfois parlent (mallel) : ils sont silencieux lorsque les mots sont émanés par Dieu et ils parlent lorsqu'Il cesse de parler.

Nith-Haiah
Haaiah
Yeratel
Seheiah
Reiyel
Omael
Lecabel
Vasariah

Serafim
Ce sont les Séraphins dirigés par l'archange Kamaël.

Ce nom signifie « les brûlants » de שרפים : Êtres de feu, Êtres de lumière.

Ils sont associés à la prière et aux louanges car ils laissent passer vers les sphères supérieures les supplications et demandes pures.

Dans Isaïe (6:2-6), ils sont décrits dotés de six ailes : « 2. Des séraphins se tenaient au-dessus de lui ; ils avaient chacun six ailes : de deux ils se couvraient la face, et de deux ils se couvraient les pieds, et de deux ils volaient.
3. Et l'un criait à l'autre, et disait : Saint, saint, saint, est l'Éternel des armées ; toute la terre est pleine de sa gloire ! »

Dans le lexique hébreu : 08314 שרף saraph saw-rawf' 1) serpent, serpent de feu - 1a) serpent venimeux. - 2) seraph, seraphim

Ils sont attachés à la Sephirah Guebourah.

 Yehuyah
 Lehahiah
 Khavaquiah
 Menadel
 Aniel
 Haamiah
 Rehael
 Yeiazel

Malakim
Ce sont les Vertus ou les Rois, dirigés par le grand archange Mikhaël. מאלכים. Ce sont les Messagers ou les Rois.

Ce sont eux qui appliquent la puissance de Dieu sur terre afin d'y concrétiser les miracles de Dieu. Ils coopèrent avec les Puissances afin d'exécuter les lois de l'univers et de les faire appliquer au sein de l'univers.

Ce sont les Malakim de la Kabbale et ils sont attachés à la Sephira Tiphereth.

Hahael
Mikael
Veuliah
Yelaiah
Sehaliah
Ariel
Asaliah
Mihael

À noter que pour les anges Malachim et Serafim, l'occultiste de la Renaissance Cornelius Agrippa a écrit deux alphabets magiques portant respectivement leur nom.

Elohim-Malkhi

Ce sont les Messagers, dirigés par l'archange Haniel.

Vehuel
Daniel
Hahasiah
Imamiah
Nanael
Nithael
Mebahiah
Poyel

Beni Elohim

Ce sont les Fils d'Elohim, ou les alchimistes, les guérisseurs, dirigés par l'archange Raphaël. בני אלהים, ils participent au processus de Guilgoul, « réincarnation ».

Nemamiah
Yeyalel
Harael
Mitzrael
Umabel
Iah-Hel
Anauel
Mehiel

Keroubīm

Ce sont les Anges (c'est leur titre véritable : Ange, ou encore chérubin), les Forts, dirigés par l'archange Gabriel. Dans les Écritures, ce sont les êtres angéliques représentés sur l'Arche d'Alliance et qui signifient la Présence de Dieu.

Psaumes (18:10) : « Il était monté sur un chérubin, et volait, et il planait sur les ailes du vent ».

Dans le lexique hébreu : 03742 כרוב ker-oob' - 1) cherub, cherubim (pl) - 1a) être angélique - 1a1) gardien d'Éden - 1a4) Chariot de Dieu.

Genèse 3:24 : « il chassa l'homme, et plaça à l'orient du jardin d'Éden les chérubins et la lame de l'épée qui tournait çà et là, pour garder le chemin de l'arbre de vie ».

Exode (25:18 - 21) : « 18 Et tu feras deux chérubins d'or ; tu les feras d'or battu, aux deux bouts du propitiatoire.
19 Fais un chérubin au bout de deçà, et un chérubin au bout de delà : vous ferez les chérubins tirés du propitiatoire, à ses deux bouts.
20 Et les chérubins étendront les ailes en haut, couvrant de leurs ailes le propitiatoire, et leurs faces seront l'une vis-à-vis de l'autre ; les faces des chérubins seront tournées vers le propitiatoire.
21 Et tu mettras le propitiatoire sur l'arche, par-dessus, et tu mettras dans l'arche le témoignage que je te donnerai ».

On les représente souvent avec une multitude d'yeux afin de symboliser leur grand savoir car ils sont les gardiens des archives de Dieu. Ils sont aides à la justice divine.

Damabiah
Manakel
Eiaël
Habuhiah
Rochel
Yabamiah
Haiaiel
Mumiah

Ishim

Ce sont les hommes surnaturels. Ce dernier ordre a été banni lors d'un concile œcuménique par l'Église catholique romaine, qui déclara hérétique toute personne y croyant. Dans la Kabbale ils représentent les anges attachés à Malkhuth.

Annexes

Articles connexes
 Kabbale
 Zohar
 Sephira
 Hiérarchie céleste, Angélologie, Glossolalie
 Anges, Archanges, Séraphins, Chérubins
 Trônes, Dominations, Vertus, Puissances, Principautés

Liens externes

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Instagram is going to take down full screen feed and recommended posts
After getting some feedback from users Instagram started going backwards from their plans to bring a full-screen display for photos and videos that the company started testing last month. Some news agencies claim that they were doing this to make Instagram feel a lot more like TikTok.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg's posts about the new look
According to Engadget, "Mark Zuckerberg shared a preview of the test on his Instagram Story, saying that the new look would be available to some people "soon."
The app began testing a version of a "full-screen" feed last month, but in that test feed posts didn't actually take up the entire screen of the app. But with the latest version shared by Zuckerberg, posts extend all the way to the top of the screen, much as they do on TikTok. The new look also tweaks the shortcuts for accessing your inbox and creating new posts."
The company's plans behind this change
Instagram chief Adam Mosseri in an interview with Platformer said, ""I'm glad we took a risk — if we're not failing every once in a while, we're not thinking big enough or bold enough," He added, "But we definitely need to take a big step back and regroup. [When] we've learned a lot, then we come back with some sort of new idea or iteration. So we're going to work through that."
Engadget reported, "Instagram brought in the full-screen feed and larger number of recommended posts in a bid to compete with TikTok and to contend with the pivot from photos to videos. The time spent people watch Reels grew by 30 percent last quarter and Mosseri said users' gradual embrace of video is a "paradigm shift that we've seen for many, many years now." Still, many people have revolted against the full-screen change. High-profile users like Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian this week called on Meta to "Make Instagram Instagram again."
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