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Collection 038 Ephemera of Paul Rader
Scope and Contents Newsletters, sermon manuscripts, scrapbooks, programs, pamphlets, photo- graphs, negatives, brochures, a taped sermon, slides, thesis materials, etc., which document Paul Rader's life and ministry. The material deals mostly with his radio work and the organizations he founded, including the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle. Additional material includes materials gathered about him for a planned biography, sermons of other preachers who spoke at the Tabernacle, newsletters and magazines published by...
Collection 075 Oral History Interviews with Elizabeth Warner
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Elizabeth Howard Warner (1912-2000) in which she describes her childhood in the Canton Province of China as a daughter of missionaries, Canton Christian College where her father worked, studies and personalities at Wheaton College, her mission work among girls with Door of Hope Mission in Canton and Hong Kong, Chinese education, economic and social conditions, religion (particularly Buddhism), politics and government, the impact of China's war with Japan, and other...
Collection 088 Papers of Paul and Catharine Gieser
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Kenneth Gieser and letters reporting to the Southern Presbyterian Mission Board in Nashville, TN on the Gieser's work in China, written between October 19, 1934, and November 1, 1936. Also contains audio tapes and transcripts of autobiographical statements.
Collection 089 Papers of Paul P. Stough
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews, films, videos relating to Paul P. Stough's missionary service in the Belgian Congo with Africa Inland Mission. Materials contain information on Stough's father, Henry Stough, Wheaton College, Paul Stough's work as a missionary for Africa Inland Mission in the Belgian Congo (Zaire) and Kenya from the 1920s to the 1970s, and generally on the spread of Christianity in Africa.
Collection 092 Ephemera of Robert B. Ekvall
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews, correspondence, photographs, and a manuscript that describe Robert B. Ekvall's education at Wheaton College, work as a missionary in China and Tibet, and military and diplomatic activities during World War II and after in China and Southeast Asia.
Collection 115 Oral History Interview with Raymond Elliott
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Raymond Leroy Elliott (1924-2008), Wycliffe Bible translator working among the Ixil Indian tribe in Guatemala. Interview topics include educational work and life in Wheaton, translation activities, missionary training, mission responsibilities, and political, social, and cultural events in Central America. The time period covered by the interviews is roughly 1924-1980.Raymond Elliott was interviewed by Chris Matthews, a Wheaton College graduate student,...
Collection 122 Oral History Interview with Gladys M. Fleckles
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Gladys Marie Fleckles (1946-2006) in which she describes her short term missionary experience with OMF in Japan. Other topics include her graduate work at Wheaton, undergraduate study at John Brown University, and work in the admissions department of Wheaton Graduate School. The time period covered by the interview is roughly 1946-1980.Gladys Fleckles was interviewed by Mr. John Svadbik twice in May 1980. The time period covered by the interviews is...
Collection 124 Papers of Helen Renich
Scope and Contents Two oral history interviews with Helen Gignilliat Torrey Renich in which she describes her grandfather, Reuben Archer Torrey, Sr., and her experiences growing up in China as a child of missionaries. Other topics discussed include her experiences at Wheaton College and culture shock. The collection also includes photographs of her family life in China and Chinese nationals, ca. 1920-30s.Helen Renich was interviewed by Robert Shuster on May 15, 1980 in Michigan and on May 17, 1982 at...
Collection 185 Papers of Albert and Muriel Nichols
Scope and Contents Correspondence, photos, negatives and miscellaneous documents concerning family events and career decisions relating to the Nicholas' missionary work in Sierra Leone. The bulk of the letters were sent to family during a two year period while the Nichols were serving as missionaries to Sierra Leone, where Albert was director of Industrial Education at Albert Academy.Topics include life in and methods of education of an urban missionary school in the 1920's, teaching industrial...
Collection 237 Records of the Slavic Gospel Association
Scope and Contents Correspondence, minutes, prayer letters, audio tapes, films, and other materials documenting the work of the Slavic Gospel Association. Records deal with the early career of Peter Deyneka Sr.; work of individual missionaries; long range planning for the mission; radio ministry; literature publication and distribution; and evangelism in Europe, North America and South America. Collection contains significant information about the church in eastern Europe. Most of the documents in the collection...
Collection 242 Oral History Interview with Ruth E. Hess
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Ruth Edna DeVelde Hess (1909-1997), a missionary with the Plymouth Brethren Church at Sakeji School for missionary children in Zambia. Topics discussed include: Hess' life as a child in Wheaton, Illinois, and education at Wheaton Academy and Wheaton College; marriage to Lyndon Roth Hess; calling to be teachers of missionary children; decision to go to Africa; their work at Sakeji School from 1932 to 1982; and descriptions of life and customs in Zambia among the Lunda...
Collection 257 Oral History Interview with James B. Dillon
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with James B. Dillon in which he discusses his conversion, marriage work in Liberia for the Sudan Interior Mission (SIM), the programs of radio station Eternal Love Winning Africa (ELWA), the cultural diversity of Liberia, and the nature of indigenous Liberian hymns and worship.James Dillon was interviewed by Wheaton graduate student Claire Bureau for her ethnomusicology course on October 29, 1983 at the Billy Graham Center on Wheaton College campus. The time...
Collection 272 Papers of Jennie Fitzwilliam
Identifier: CN
Scope and Contents Letters with some translation, photographs, a Lisu translation of the New Testament, combined catechism and hymnbook in the Atsi Kachin language, slides, and four oral history interviews all related to Jennie Fitzwilliam's mission work with Overseas Missionary Fellowship (formerly China Inland Mission) among the Lisu and Kachin peoples in southern China along the Burmese border. Included are recollections of Fitzwilliam's husband, Francis, J.O. Fraser and the early history of missionary work...
Collection 287 Oral History Interview with Margaret Crossett
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Margaret Rice Elliott Crossett in which she describes her childhood with her missionary parents in China, her education at Wheaton College, and missionary career with her husband, Vincent Crossett, in China and Taiwan with China Inland Mission/Overseas Missionary Fellowship (1929-1948, 1961-1973). Topics discussed include Crossett's childhood in China; description of Chinese indigenous worship practices and syncretism in Chinese religious culture; Crossett's...
Collection 289 Oral History Interview with G. Paul Groen
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Paul Groen in which he describes his education at Wheaton College, missionary work the Christian Reformed Church in Nigeria and the Nigerian church, particularly among the Tiv people, and the country's economy, educational system and political history between 1964 and 1973. Other topics discussed include: Tiv customs and religion, the church among the Tiv and its indigenous leadership and transition of leadership from missionaries, relations with Roman Catholics...
Collection 290 Oral History Interview with Merle A. Steely
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Merle Ashel Steely, who worked as a missionary with Sudan Interior Mission between 1951 and 1977 in Liberia and Nigeria. Topic discussed include: Steely's conversion while in military service, education and employment at Wheaton College (including the 1950 revival there), his missionary work in Liberia at radio station ELWA and with Sudan Interior Mission in Nigeria, teaching in mission and government schools, evangelism and church planting, Billy Graham's 1960...
Collection 312 Papers of Diane W. Hawkins
Scope and Contents Collection 312 consists of letters, oral history interviews, articles, minutes of meetings, reports and other relating to Diane Hawkins' missionary service in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) as well as the tapes of an oral history interview conducted several years later. Among the topics covered are: TEAM's evangelistic, and educational work in Rhodesia; the lifestyle, music, and beliefs of Shona people; the civil war between white government and the black nationalist guerrillas which raged while...
Collection 317 Oral History Interview with Ian H. and Ruth E. Cook
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Ian Harper Cooke and Ruth Eileen (Witmer) Cook, in which Ian describes his childhood and education in South Africa, college education at Wheaton College, training for missionary work, medical missions work in South Africa with The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM), the Zulus, apartheid, and the national church; and Ruth describes her childhood, conversion, and intention to become a missionary nurse, education at West Suburban Hospital and Wheaton College, joining...
Collection 325 Oral History Interview with Donald W. Berry
Scope and Contents Oral history interview in which Berry discusses his conversion, education at Wheaton College, and his work as a pilot and administrator for Mission Aviation Fellowship in Honduras and Southeast Asia. Other topics discussed include. Berry's service in the Army during World War II, his views on pacifism, the origins of Mission Aviation Fellowship, challenges of MAF, and the effect of life on the mission field on Berry's family.Donald Berry was interviewed by Robert Shuster on February...
Collection 330 Records of Moody Memorial Church
Scope and Contents Correspondence, reports, scrapbooks, church bulletins, minutes of meetings, and other records documenting the activities of the influential independent Chicago church started by Dwight L. Moody; chiefly from ca. 1910 through 1946.Topics documented include worship services, Sunday school, the weekly activities of the congregation, the governance of the body, and various urban evangelistic outreaches of the church. Besides the history of the church, the collection also documents such...
Collection 335 Papers of Ralph E. Shannon
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews and paper records relating to Ralph Shannon's life and ministry as a medical missionary in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo).Audio Tapes Four oral history interviews with Ralph Shannon, recorded on eight reels of audio tape. Topics covered include Shannon's childhood in Belgian Congo (Zaire) with his missionary parents, Wheaton College undergraduate and graduate education, service in Zaire as a medical missionary...
Collection 337 Papers of Roger H. Malstead
Scope and Contents Two oral history interviews and prayer letters, relating to Roger Malstead's ministry with Operation Mobilization.Audio TapesTwo oral history interviews with Roger Malstead in which he describes his youth, education at Wheaton College, work with Operation Mobilization (OM) in the former Soviet Union, Turkey, Lebanon, the United States, at OM headquarters in England, and with the OM ship DOULOS; Other topics described are the director of OM,...
Collection 346 Oral History Interview with Joshua Adjabeng
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Joshua Adjabeng in which he discusses his childhood in Ghana, family, conversion to Christianity, education at Wheaton College; the Church of the Pentecost, evangelistic work among university students, Christian literature in Ghana. Other topics discussed include the condition of the church in Ghana, African Pentecostalism, and a comparison of the Christian church and Ghana and the United States. The time period covered by the interview is 1950-1986....
Collection 385 Oral History Interview with Daniel E. Liberek
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Daniel Eric Liberek in which he describes growing up in Belgium as the son of a Protestant pastor, his conversion, methods of evangelism in that country, comparison between United States and Belgian evangelicals, his own work as a youth pastor in Belgium, Protestant-Catholic relations, church-state relations, and other faiths in the country. Other topics discussed include Liberek's experiences running a Christian youth camp; and some of the spiritual options in...
Collection 398 Oral History Interview with Wayne L. Gordon
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Wayne LeRoy Gordon, pastor of Lawndale Community Church, a nondenominational church in Chicago's predominantly black community, Lawndale. Topics covered include Gordon's youth, the influence of his family on his spiritual growth, his call to work in the black community, his education at Wheaton College, ministry through Lawndale Community Church in Chicago (its structure, various ministries, including health care, education, and recreation), and the African American...
Collection 408 Oral History Interview with Tien Fock Leong
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Tien Fock Leong in which he describes his conversion, work with Campus Crusade for Christ in Malaysia; Malaysian culture in the Chinese community; the Malaysian church; and the relationship between church and state in Malaysia. Other topics discussed include social and economic conditions of Malaysia; the Muslim population in Malaysia; role of women in Malaysian society; American misconceptions of Malaysia; cultural diversity of Malaysia; and the Japanese occupation...
Collection 409 Papers of David D. Thomas
Scope and Contents Correspondence, photographs, negatives, and clippings relating to the linguistic and missionary work of David and Dorothy Thomas in the Philippines, Vietnam (especially with the Chrau tribe), Cambodia, and Thailand with Wycliffe Bible Translators from 1954-1975. The bulk of the content consists of David and Dorothy's letters to his mother, Ruth, who lived in Wheaton, IL. Topics covered in the correspondence include information on the Thomas family, missionary work in the Philippines, and...
Collection 424 Oral History Interviews with Ruth L. Maxwell
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Ruth Lillian Maxwell in which she talks about her family background, including her grandfather, L.E. Maxwell, founder of Prairie Bible Institute, and her parents, missionaries with Sudan Interior Mission (SIM) in Nigeria; Nigerian village life; experiences at boarding school; conversion to Christianity; spiritual development; education in Canada at Prairie Bible Institute; joining SIM; missions work in Liberia teaching the Bible and leading study groups for women....
Collection 428 Papers of Helen E. Berry
Scope and Contents Oral history interview and prayer letters relating to the ministry of Helen Elizabeth Berry, missionary with the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society in Taiwan from 1966-1990.Series: Audio TapesOral history interview with Helen E. Berry in which she describes her youth, family, conversion, call to be a missionary, education at Wheaton College, missionary work with the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society in Taiwan, church...
Collection 483 Oral History Interview with Francis Sunderaraj
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Francis Sunderaraj in which he describes committing his life to Christ as a teenager in India; the development of his faith; the institutions and leadership of Evangelical Protestantism in India; Methodist churches in India and Malaysia; Sunderaraj's education at the Union Biblical Seminary in Yeotmal, India, Princeton Seminary, and Wheaton College; the development of the Evangelical Fellowship of India. The time period covered by the interviews is ca. 1942-1993....
Collection 514 Ephemera of the Wheaton College Revivals
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews, questionnaires, reports, and other materials relating to spontaneous revivals on Wheaton College campus in the twentieth century. There are restrictions on some material in this collection. The collection primarily documents the March 1995 revival at the College, largely through oral history interviews conducted during or shortly after the event; also included are thirteen follow-up interviews conducted two years after the revival....
Collection 553 Oral History Interview with Alex Sackey-Ansah
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Alex Atempo Sackey-Ansah in which he describes his family, conversion and spiritual development, education, joining PioneersAfrica, distinctives and programs of the mission, his responsibilities, PioneersAfrica director Solomon Aryeetey, Church of Pentecost, the church in Ghana, missions in Africa, African missionaries, church planting philosophy and process, conflict resolution in Africa, American perceptions of Africa and the African church, establishing a...
Collection 607 Oral History Interviews with Herbert and Frieda Atkinson
Scope and Contents Oral History Interviews with Dr. Herbert Andrew Atkinson (1931-2009) and his wife, Frieda Elizabeth (Paul) Atkinson (1930- ), missionaries with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) in the Belgian Congo. Dr. Atkinson discusses his family background, conversion, Wheaton College, influence of his roommate Bill Kornfield and Dr. V. Raymond Edman, God's provision for his entering medical school, ministry in Oicha, obstacles in communication with the Congolese, lessons learned on the mission field. Frieda...
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Q: R: dplyr filter timestamp I have the following data frame wrapped by tbl_df. Note that the 2nd column timestamp was formatted as timestamp=format(df[,2], format="%H:%M:%OS") follow before being wrapped by tbl_df.
> out$ts_tbl
# A tibble: 1,903 × 3
         date    timestamp value
       <dttm>       <fctr> <int>
1  2016-07-04 09:15:00.099 8
2  2016-07-04 09:15:00.099 2
3  2016-07-04 09:15:00.099 9
4  2016-07-04 09:15:00.152 1
5  2016-07-04 09:15:00.152 2
6  2016-07-04 09:15:00.152 3
7  2016-07-04 09:15:00.152 5
8  2016-07-04 09:15:00.152 10
9  2016-07-04 09:15:00.152 10
10 2016-07-04 09:15:00.152 1
# ... with 1,903 more rows

Somehow after wrapping the data frame by tbl_df, the timestamp columns become factors.
My goal is to be able to filter the timestamp before "09:16:00.000" (or filter timestamp within a certain range). I tried:
> output$ts_tbl %>% filter(timestamp < "09:16:00.000")

Then I have the following output which complains that the timestamps are factors under tbl_df (shown below).  Can someone kindly help me out here please?
# A tibble: 0 × 3
# ... with 3 variables: date <dttm>, timestamp <fctr>, value <int>
Warning message:
In Ops.factor(c(14L, 14L, 14L, 35L, 35L, 35L, 35L, 35L, 35L, 35L,  :
  '<' not meaningful for factors

A: We can convert it to times class with chron and do the filter
library(chron)
library(dplyr)
df %>%
    filter(times(timestamp)< times("09:16:00"))
# A tibble: 7 × 3
#        date    timestamp value
#       <chr>       <fctr> <int>
#1 2016-07-04 09:15:00.099     8
#2 2016-07-04 09:15:00.099     2
#3 2016-07-04 09:15:00.099     9
#4 2016-07-04 09:15:00.152     1
#5 2016-07-04 09:15:00.152     2
#6 2016-07-04 09:15:00.152     3
#7 2016-07-04 09:15:00.152     5

data
df <- structure(list(date = c("2016-07-04", "2016-07-04", "2016-07-04",
"2016-07-04", "2016-07-04", "2016-07-04", "2016-07-04", "2016-07-04",
"2016-07-04", "2016-07-04"), timestamp = structure(c(1L, 1L,
1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 3L, 3L, 4L), .Label = c("09:15:00.099", "09:15:00.152",
"09:16:00.152", "09:17:00.152"), class = "factor"), value = c(8L,
2L, 9L, 1L, 2L, 3L, 5L, 10L, 10L, 1L)), .Names = c("date", "timestamp",
"value"), row.names = c("1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8",
 "9", "10"), class = c("tbl_df", "tbl", "data.frame"))

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Mike leads FreeWheel's Advisory Services team, playing a key role in developing and managing client advisory engagements and driving internal strategic initiatives. Mike joined FreeWheel from Univision, where he most recently served as General Manager, Local Digital, overseeing the Company's local TV and radio digital business. Prior to that role, he served as Vice President, Digital Revenue Operations. In this capacity, he developed and managed the revenue operations function for Univision's digital business, which included ad ops, yield management, reporting, programmatic sales, and initiatives including viewability, brand safety and data. Mike was also a key member of Univision's 2014 World Cup digital leadership team. At Booz & Company, Mike led strategy and operations consulting engagements for media clients operating in the linear and digital space in the US and Middle East/ North Africa. Mike earned his BA in Economics at Boston College and holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. In his free time he serves on the Junior Board for Rosie's Theater Kids, plays the guitar and travels.


Comparative analysis of 14-3-3 isoform expression and epigenetic alterations in colorectal cancer.
The 14-3-3 family is a group of intracellular proteins found in all eukaryotic organisms. Humans have seven isoforms that serve as scaffolds to promote interactions of regulatory phospho-proteins involved in many vital cellular processes and previous studies have shown that disturbances in native 14-3-3 levels can contribute significantly to the development of various cancers. DNA and RNA was extracted from frozen tissue samples collected by the Human Cooperative Tissue Network. RNA samples were reverse transcribed and subjected to qRT-PCR analysis using fluorescently labelled probes. Genomic DNA was treated with bisulfite and cloned into bacterial vectors for subsequent high-resolution sequencing. Mammalian NIH3T3 cells were transformed with 14-3-3 eta and Ras expression vectors synthesized from cDNA. Colonies were counted and transforming capability assessed after 21 days of growth. Cell lysates were analyzed by western blot to verify protein expression. Here we examined normal and cancerous 14-3-3 expression levels of all seven isoforms in a cohort of sporadic colorectal adenocarcinomas and in a group of tumors and their matched normals using qRT-PCR analysis. We found a statistically significant decrease in the levels of 14-3-3 sigma, eta, and zeta observed among adenocarcinomas compared to normal tissue. A parallel analysis of microarray data from the TCGA dataset confirmed that expression of sigma and eta were down-regulated in colon tumors. To explore the mechanisms behind 14-3-3 expression changes, we examined the methylation status of the sigma, eta, and zeta gene promoters in selected samples. Our data identified novel CpG methylation sites in the eta promoter consistent with epigenetic silencing of both 14-3-3 sigma and eta isoforms during colon tumorigenesis. Because epigenetic silencing is the hallmark of a tumor suppressor we tested eta in focus formation assays and found that it is capable of suppressing ras-induced transformation of NIH3T3 cells. To our knowledge, this is the first study to identify the 14-3-3 eta gene as a tumor suppressor and that its expression is suppressed in colon tumors by DNA hypermethylation. These data suggest a link between 14-3-3 expression levels and the development of colon cancers.
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Take a peek inside one of London's most stylish wardrobes and learn all about inspiring Whitney Bromberg Hawkings, founder of high-end flower delivery service FLOWERBX which has just launched in Germany. We met the entrepreneur for a wardrobe detox with our London Personal Concierge service.
When I was a teenager, I dreamt of moving from Dallas to France and becoming the editor of French Vogue. Alas, when I moved to Paris after graduating from University, Vogue wasn't hiring! It was the luckiest misfortune I could have asked for as, instead, I got my first job as Tom Ford's assistant at Gucci. This fateful job offer led me to a two decade love affair with Tom, introduced me to my husband, Peter, and ultimately created the impetus to launch my own company.
Why did you decide to go into the flower business?
After working for TOM FORD for 19 years and feeling frustrated with the cost and inconsistency of the flowers I was buying and sending, I wanted to create a branded floral offering. Also, as a working Mom, I buy everything online: my weekly groceries, my clothes and everything else. Flowers were the one thing I couldn't buy, in a simple, chic way, online. I started FLOWERBX a little over two years ago and am happy that it has resonated with so many people, so quickly and that the growth has been so significant.
How can we picture a day at work for you?
There is certainly no typical day in a start up! That said, I try to start my mornings early in the warehouse as there are inevitably lots of fires to put out before the work day starts. Whether it's with roses that have come in too pink or peonies that haven't opened enough for an event, flowers are a volatile business! Then I try to structure my day so I can spend afternoons in town, meeting with clients and visiting venues for events.
I feel like the luckiest woman on the planet to wake up in the morning and work with flowers. My company is imbued with this love and passion, and my hope is that this enthusiasm is conveyed in everything that we do.
What's your advice to female entrepreneurs?
I would say, the toughest part was deciding to go for it! So my first bit of advice would be "JUST DO IT." That said, I think it is crucial to get support from other women. If you are looking to raise outside capital, look for female investors. Seek out the sisterhood!
How has your style changed since starting your own business? Any tips on getting dressed in the morning?
I had this fantasy that I would live in jeans and trainers for my early mornings at the warehouse, but the reality is that I spend half of the day meeting with our high-end luxury clients and need to represent FLOWERBX in the right way. So, while I wear fewer pencil skirts, slightly lower heels and more tailored trousers, I wouldn't say my style has changed all that much since my time at Gucci/TOM FORD.
Luckily, with sites like Rebelle, there is less guilt as you make it so painless and fashionable to recycle one s wardrobe.
I need to be able to go from our warehouse to lunch with a client on any given day, so my outfit must be versatile. I am most often in a pair of black Mother jeans, an Equipment blouse or and ATM T-shirt and a tailored TOM FORD blazer with a strong shoulder and a fitted waist, and a pair of Gucci loafers (with a pair of Gianvito Rossi stilettos in my bag) - old habits die hard.
What's one of your fashion secrets that you are willing to share with us?
I buy the best T-shirts from Hanes.
Bleached blonde ringlets, teased bangs and too much hair spray in the late 80s.
Tell us about your wardrobe: How do you edit?
One of the greatest things I learned from working with Tom is the importance of EDITING, so I am quite shameless when it comes to getting rid of things I haven't worn in a year. Luckily, with sites like Rebelle, there is less guilt as you make it so painless and fashionable to recycle one's wardrobe.
Gucci peep toe heels that were a gift from my grandmother when I was at University.
You're a mother of 3. What fashion advice will you pass on to your children?
I hope that I can convey to my children the power of fashion to build confidence and to make one feel like one's best self. I also hope I can pass on my love of fashion and encourage my kids to experiment with fashion to form their own identities and ultimately, define their own personal style. Lastly, I hope that I can teach them the importance and value of buying quality clothing that is made with love and care, and I think that sites like Rebelle make this a cost effective option as well.
The Chanel silk top and skirt has so many happy memories. It was a gift from my then fiancé, Peter, on my 28th birthday. It was on this birthday that I learned the power of a Chanel outfit. I felt so chic and French when I wore this, and it reminds me of the time my husband and I were falling in love with each other.


Both gold and silver extended gains for the second straight day in the bullion market here today on sustained buying by stockists to meet the marriage season demand amid a firming global trend.
While gold rose by Rs 45 to Rs 28,940 per 10 grams, silver gained by Rs 200 to Rs 58,450 per kg on increased offtake by jewellers and industrial units.
Market experts said sustained buying by stockists for the marriage season amid a firming global trend helped both gold and silver prices to move up.
In Singapore, gold rose by USD 7.60 to USD 1,775.70 an ounce, while silver added by 0.48 per cent to USD 35.63 an ounce.
On the domestic front, gold of 99.9 and 99.5 per cent purity added Rs 45 each to Rs 28,940 and Rs 28,800 per kg, respectively. The metal had gained Rs 30 yesterday.
Sovereigns remained stable at Rs 23,500 per piece of eight grams on limited deals.
Silver ready rose by Rs 200 to Rs 58,450 per kg, while weekly-based delivery shed Rs 20 to Rs 58,650 per kg.
Silver coins held steady at Rs 72,000 for buying and Rs 73,000 for selling of 100 pieces.


On Thursday, March 21st Apt613, Beau's All Natural Brewing Co. and Spectrasonic present: Jon Bryant (Canadian folk rock), Amanda Lowe Music (Ottawa indie) and more.
Shadowhand brings its Neil Young & Crazy Horse circus to Babylon. 2 sets of high flying rock n roll starting at 9pm on Friday, March 15th. Followed by DJ Illo for an all night Yatch Rock after party. Sponsored graciously by Beau's All Natural Brewing Co.
Get ready to sail away to the smooth classics of the 70s! Fleetwood Mac, Michael McDonald, Steely Dan, Hall & Oates & wherever else our journey takes us. Come dance & sing out loud as DJ Illo plays the hits we all remember.
Join us for an early show at Babylon on Saturday, March 16th to call upon all of the spring goddesses and welcome the warm weather with a wicked dance party by The PepTides with special guests Crystalena & The Connection!
On Friday, March 8th come support and turn up with the next wave of young rising talent in our nations capital! Followed by the One Hit Wonders after party featuring music from DJ Davey ! Doors open at 8:30 and first act starts at 9!
On Saturday, March 9th grab your Motorola pink flip phone, throw on your favorite pocket-less jeans, and come celebrate a night of 2000s throwback. Dress up for the theme if you want to relive the Y2K years, or come as yourself. WHAT ARE WE CELEBRATING? We're bringing together Ottawa brands for a night of ultimate Y2K jams.
This is also the unofficial after party for the Canadian powerlifting championships happening in Ottawa this year! We will have lifters from across Canada celebrating with you, so let's show them how we have an Ottawa good time!


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Have had this TV for a few years and it's a great television. HiDef of course, and all the things that go with this model, which you can look up and also see the photo of the back proving the model name. Comes with cables: HTML of course and the one that goes into the TV itself. It's a SMART TV with all that stuff in there. Local pickup so you come by and I carry it out. The only thing "wrong" is that the stand doesn't have a lock on it. But it fits nicely into the center and the TV itself stands perfectly (as you can see by the photos). When you move the TV (pick it up and move it from room to room etc), you have to lift it from the stand and carry both separate i.e. the stand doesn't attach to the TV when you lift it. When I got it and put it together, that's how I did it. Like the pics indicate, it comes with a remote.


A world from specks of dust.
A culture right and superior.
A society without perspective of pasts.
A world of gentle people.
A culture of divided people.
A society so close, so far away.
A world deep of mystery.
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Emotional Intelligence and the Difference Between Emotions and Feelings
What is emotional intelligence?
Intelligence is the ability to discern and make use of discernment. Emotional intelligence is the ability to discern emotions and feelings and make use of that.
Emotions are motivations like hate, sexuality, excitement, sadness, disgust, anger, and loneliness. Emotions come from the below – the body/spacesuit. They serve survival.
Feelings are motivations like love, happiness, empathy, sense of beauty, sense of purpose, and kindness. Feelings come from the above, the soul. They fulfill the soul's needs.
Emotional Modes
The body's nervous system has a limited repertoire of emotional modes. Emotions are not reflexes, rather involuntary mental modes that involve the brain, the spinal cord, and lower nerve complexes, for example, the abdominal brain at the solar plexus.
In case we enter the fear mode, the spinal cord freezes the body, the brain releases adrenaline, our perception zooms in on the source of fear and possible escape routes, and muscles tense to get ready for action.
The disgust mode reduces the chance of getting sick. It's probably the most important emotion of all because sickness is much more dangerous than accidents or predators. Ninety percent of American Indians died from imported sicknesses.
Emotional modes have evolved over millions of years and defy modification. They can bring out the Shadow in us. Most crimes are emotionally motivated.
Feelings reflect the soul's needs, for example, to have meaningful experiences, to love, to behold beauty, to be happy, and to experience enlightenment.
Feelings are involuntary too but in a different way that emotions. They are always there. Like the soul, feelings are immortal and we continue to express them in the in-between-life.
True love is the mother of all feelings.
Distinguishing Emotions and Feelings
You shall separate the subtle from the gross, suavely and with great ingenuity. – The Emerald Tablet of Hermes
It's not easy to keep emotions and feelings apart. For example, sexuality, infatuation, and love like to mix, whereby sexuality and infatuation are emotions and love a feeling.
One way of telling: Emotional modes limit perception and feelings inspire and enlighten. Infatuation is blind, love is lucid.
Also, emotional modes are dormant until external events trigger them. No event, no emotion. Feelings, on the other hand, are always blooming.
Feelings want to express themselves. If there is no situation in the external world that allows them to manifest, feelings will prompt the intellect to come up with a plan to create opportunities. That's why we are artists and technicians. That's why we pursue relationships – to express feelings. And that's why we pursue our heart's desire.
Because the distinction between feelings and emotions is not well developed in society, language forsakes us. A lot of feelings remain un-coined and many emotions and feelings share the same names, for example, love, which is a wildcard for various feelings and emotions.
Let's face it, we need to resort to poetry to reveal feelings.
Desires and Needs
Needs emerge from emotions and desires from feelings.
Emotions are formless, needs have a form and direction. For example, the fear mode turns into the need for building a shelter or invent weapons. The hunger mode takes on the need to hunt and gather.
We tend to come up with negative needs, in particular, if it comes to fear and disgust. Instead of pursuing safety, we opt for destroying what threatens us. We rely more on medicine (elimination of germs) than on pursuing a healthy lifestyle. For the same reason, we make war instead of building peace.
Desires give forms to feelings. And they evolve needs. For example, we turn the need to eat (anything) into a desire for steak, pizza, or cake.
Most of the time, we pick up desires in the external world. We see a car and we want it (the car is an elaboration of the need for transport). But we can also pick up desires in the telepathic noise. And then, there are those desires that come seemingly out of nothing. These are presents from the higher self that take the form of callings, for example, our heart's desire.
The Heart's Desire
Our heart's desire is our most important desire. It's the one thing we want to be and do in this incarnation. I want to be an inspiring author. What do you want to be?
Emotions can't motivate us to pursue our heart's desire, because emotions need external triggers. Only feelings can motivate us from within and over a long period of time.
Once we pursue our heart's desire, all other desires turn into needs, become secondary, and support the realization of our heart's desire. Time to sacrifice. Do we need a living space with good vibes to do enlightenment? Yep. Do we need a mansion? Nope. Do we need healthy food? Yep. Do we need caviar and champaign? Sometimes.
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The decision to pursue our heart's desire is a turning point in our lives and we turn from a hunter into an artist. And the hound race turns into a desirous quest.
We live for a creative purpose, not for any specific result. – Jason C. Lotterhand.
Emotion Management
Emotions bypass the brain's voluntary control center. Once an external event triggers the fear mode, it will be up and running for a while before we can snap out of it. That's why emotional manipulation is so effective.
Anger management goes a long way, but it doesn't help with other emotions like disgust, sexuality, or hate.
Emotion management combines four principal procedures:
An emergency procedure
A management procedure
A therapeutic procedure
Rehabitulation
Emergency procedures prevent acting upon emotions. For example, when we get angry, we can do a breathing exercise to calm down. When we are scared, we can use a mantra like "I can do this."
Sometimes, we cannot stop emotional responses and we have to manage them. For example, grief. In this case, it is important to embrace the emotion and live through it. Unprocessed emotions can turn into complexes.
The Kübler-Ross model details seven mental stages we go through when we face persistent emotions:
Knowing in which stage we are, takes the edge off, and allows us to focus on one task or stage at a time. Kübler-Ross used this model to stage the process of grief, but we can use it for any emotional mode. For the sake of trying something new, let's take a positive emotion – infatuation:
Shock: A guy takes your breath away and you freeze
Denial: "He's too good to be true."
Anger: "He's out of my league."
Bargaining: "God, if he asks for my number, I'll go to church for ten days in a row."
He doesn't. Hence, depression.
Deliberation. "I'll spill my beer over his suit and offer to laundry it."
Integration. You spill beer over his suit.
Shock, denial, anger, bargaining, and depression are subjective and passive. During these five phases, we struggle to cope with the emotion (mind that we do not struggle with the event itself). Deliberation is a conscious decision to do something about the emotion, and integration walks the walk.
Therapeutic procedures analyze emotional triggers. For example, anger results from fear, hence the first step in overcoming anger is understanding what scares us.
Once we understand what triggers unwanted emotions, we can create new habits. For example, if we are prone to succumbing to intimidation, we can practice martial arts and get used to physical combat and pain.
Do one thing every day that scares you. – Eleanor Roosevelt
The Importance of Feelings
A ghost haunts the house of enlightenment – the notion that we should get rid of emotions and feelings. Emotions yes, feelings no. Buddha showed that (cognitive) discipline is half-ass. He left the path of asceticism because he realized the importance of balance.
Feelings and emotions are the fuel on which our personality runs. If properly cultivated, feelings can motivate us from within. Emotions are not more than emergency fuel and rely on external stimuli.
Do you need an alarm clock to wake up? Or a boss to motivate you? Or a partner to push you to take care of your health? That's because you haven't switched to feelings yet. Feelings are like an internal well of vitality that can continuously refresh you from within. Lack of feelings cause lack of vitality, and lack of vitality is the root cause of depression.
I had a business partner once who could only get going when there was an emergency. As soon as business was back to normal he went back to sleep so to say. Some people even have to seek negative external stimulation to motivate themselves, for example, they look for enemies (or make one).
Check out Ikigai. Ikigai is the Japanese concept of having a direction or purpose in life. This can be a job or hobby, but better, if it's your heart's desire.
What about taking a moment and estimating your ratio. Do you respond 80% emotionally and 20% with feelings? 50/50? 80/20? What can you do to cultivate more feelings?
Replacing Emotions with Feelings
We can't escape emotions as long as we are incarnate. And we can't transform emotions, because they are involuntary. But we can redirect responses from emotions to feelings – that's emotion management. And we can farm emotions.
This is nothing new. Christians are supposed to practice unconditional love 24/7, even go to the extreme of loving one's enemy. Buddhists are supposed to practice non-violence and kindness 24/7. Positive thinkers are supposed to think only good thoughts in the face of adversity
Practicing solitude liberates from the loneliness mode.
Practicing peace of mind liberates from the anger mode.
Practicing minimalism frees the mind from the anxiety mode.
So, how do we farm feelings? By practicing creative feeling. Creative feelings fills our body, soul, and mind with love and kindness, and when the moment comes, we have so much love that we can drown negative emotions.
Try to take all that rage and anger and resentment you have in you and turn that into love. It's surprisingly easy.
Don't know where to start? Begin with cultivating the four soul values – happiness, purpose, love, and sense of beauty. Guided meditations go a long way. Create a place inside you where you can be a happy, lovely, beautiful, and purposeful soul. Retreat to that place when emotions strike.
Karma and Emotions
Karma is the law of action and response. What goes around, comes around. As you sow, so you reap. Karma keeps the universe in balance – on physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual levels.
Emotions are dualistic: like and hate, disgust and delight, joy and sadness. We're used to manipulating people and situations to stay on the positive side of emotions. But that's like winding up a karmic spring. It's just a matter of time until we swing back to painful emotions.
I don't believe that feelings are dualistic. I can't think of an antipode to love. Hate is the antipode of liking. Love is a creative force. Disgust is the antipode of delight, and beauty is above the two, because beauty is a creative expression.
The point is that karma latches onto emotions, not feelings. There is a way to improve karma by responding with feelings instead of emotions. And we can pay karmic debts with a higher currency – love.
Nothing escapes the Principle of Cause and Effect, but there are many Planes of Causation, and one may use the laws of the higher to overcome the laws of the lower. – The Kybalion
Emotions and Feelings in Society
Emotions have been abused the world over to rationalize selfish political agendas. That's where all the scare, shame, blame, and guilt tactics come from.
Every philosophy has its core desire. Hedonism is the rationalization of pleasure, racism is conceptualized disgust, capitalism is sanctified greed, and fascism is an organized fear response.
Some laws and regulations are still emotionally motivated, for example, the death penalty. Feelings, on the other hand, drive humanitarian progress. Without love, there would be neither freedom, nor equality, nor justice, nor charity.
In the collective unconscious, fear, anger, disgust, and greed patterns battle patterns of empathy, kindness, and honor. Democracy is continuously threatened by collective fear patterns. It seems that collective emotions are winning, but that is only because they keep raising a ruckus and thereby make it into the news. Humanitarianism is on a slow but inevitable winning streak. The light has already won, the darkness just didn't get it yet. The Aquarian Age is dawning and that is a turning point toward the prevalence of collective love and kindness.
Emotions, Feelings, and Enlightenment
Emotions pull us down into the spacesuit. Feelings raise us to the soul and higher self. We want fewer emotions and more feelings. That doesn't mean that emotions are bad, they have their place. It just means we are outgrowing them.
We can't sit under a Budhi tree and meditate until illumination day. We can't retreat into a monastery to escape emotional modes. We need to do enlightenment in the grind. And the grind is the hound race. There, we run with emotions.
Luckily, in modern societies, we face fewer dangers. Emotions are losing importance and we can afford more feelings.
The longer we pursue enlightenment, the lesser we can rely on emotions to motivate us. When we reach the stage of the great work, we will rely exclusively on the power of love. As we proceed, emotional modes externalize and become something we experience. They become fleeting too and fade quickly like dreams. Ever caught yourself thinking, "What made me upset just now?" That's what I'm talking about.
Having said that, emotional modes still play a role in higher enlightenment stages, in particular, when we access other realities. Other realities can be as dangerous as this one, and the fear and disgust mode can protect us from slippery enlightenment slopes.
At last, the great work will liberate the body-mind vehicle from physical needs, and emotions and pain will become useless. We go through the mystical death and rebirth and emerge on the other side as a new being – emotionless but full of love.
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George W. Bush Comes Out Of Hiding And Shows Where His Real Loyalties Lie
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God bless General John Kelly for doing what he did yesterday. It was heart-wrenching watching him get up there and talk about the death of his own son, and an utter disgrace that he had to do it. It was an act of supreme loyalty for him to go into that room filled with fake journalist snakes and defend his President. General Kelly has spent his entire adult life in the valiant service of his country, and yesterday's service should never be forgotten by anyone who loves America.
A Bush Finds His Voice – For eight long years, from January 20, 2009 through January 20, 2017, supporters of former President George W. Bush were saddened and frustrated as Mr. Bush sat idly by while his successor in office and his own supporters trashed Bush's policies, his reputation and his personality on pretty much a daily basis. For those eight long years, Mr. Bush appeared happy and very much unperturbed as his successor worked overtime to tear down this country's institutions brick by brick, to foment racial divisions wherever possible, acted in an utterly lawless manner whenever it suited his desires and needs, and, as we are finding out this week, allowed his Secretary of State and Attorney General to literally sell the country's national security interests to Russia.
Mr. Bush seemed to be footloose and fancy free as his successor sat fecklessly by and allowed ISIS to grow and take over vast swaths of Iraq and Syria, as terrorist attacks in the U.S. and throughout Western Europe multiplied in almost a geometric progression, as North Korea marched steadily towards possessing an intercontinental nuclear capability.
During all that time and through all that corruption and destruction of American society, Mr. Bush sat at his Crawford, Texas ranch like a deaf mute, rarely seen in public other than at events at his presidential library on the SMU campus, or other events at which he was paling around with his "Brother from another Mother", Bill Clinton. Nothing, no insult, no being blamed by his successor for his own failures, no corruption of government or society by said successor could break Mr. Bush out of his self-imposed silence.
It is only this week that Mr. Bush has suddenly found his voice. As a duly-elected President of his own political party is going about systematically deconstructing the legacy of Mr. Bush's successor, trying to resolve the crises with Iran and North Korea that both Mr. Bush and his successor punted down the road, dealing with major natural disasters in three states and Puerto Rico, and under a daily withering assault by our fake national news media, Mr. Bush chose this moment to come out of hiding and make a speech criticizing another president. Unfortunately, and to his undying disgrace, Mr. Bush chose to criticize not his successor and all the damage he perpetrated on our country, but the current President, Donald Trump.
In making that speech yesterday, conveniently timed to distract attention from the exploding Russian Uranium/bribery scandal that took place in the first two years of the Obama Administration, the former President removed all doubt about where his real loyalties lie. Mr. Bush is a Bush after all, and his loyalties are with the establishment, the ruling elite, the globalists who insist we place international interests above the interests of American citizens, and the DC Swamp creatures who continue to work to ensure such outcomes. He's just another Bush, like his Dad, like Jeb! and all the other Bushes who are creatures of the ruling elite. His outlook and philosophy differ from those of the Clintons and the Obamas only by small degrees.
By labeling President Trump's voters as bigots and nativists, Mr. Bush showed an elite's disdain for the very same voters who got him elected in 2000 and 2004. By laying off the blame for our current social strife entirely on President Trump, Mr. Bush demonstrated support for the very leftists who are truly responsible for it all. By refusing to condemn the Democrat-invented "resistance", Mr. Bush showed his preference for the true fascists among us.
I'll never regret supporting George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004, because he was definitely the lesser of two evils in those elections. But Thursday's disgracefully timed and delivered speech removed any remaining doubt that he was in fact an evil, and that made it a sad day indeed.
Just another day in betrayed Bush voters America.
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I never thought GWBush was a great president but I did think he was a good American and a good man – until reading this article yesterday. Sad to see a man destroy what little legacy he had.
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GW a perfect example of just another Big Government Republican.
Hardly a defender of constitutional conservatism.
I despised Dubaya for years to the great criticism of my fellow conservatives. He is utterly and completely incompetent, stupid, liar, and nasty. He lied us into war that cost 5000 Americans their lives, and 50,000 left with serious injuries. Killed untold Iraqis and empowered and emboldened Iran.
His incompetence and negligence directly led to the 2008 financial melt down that ruined millions of American lives. He is an evil SOB but a pretty good painter (like Hitler).
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When Linda turned 26, her failing health took another plunge. Her periods disappeared and she was prescribed hormone pills. She also developed raging eczema. Doctor after doctor said the same thing—there was no cure or reason, and the only remedies were steroids and creams. Linda's body developed a resistance to the medicine. The rashes became a continual source of torture and agony during many nights.
Desperate, Linda delved into researching skin health, and its relationship with beauty and internal health. Raw foods seemed like an impossible idea. She took to it with the same experimental penchant she had in other areas of her life. Even only after a few days, Linda could feel a change inside her body and knew that something phenomenal was happening.
In 2007, she took a raw food course in Boston, USA, where she experienced the power of living foods. During the course, Linda had access to world-class trainers on both raw food preparation and personal development. Each day was packed with training on raw food preparation, terminology, and character development to qualify as a living foods teacher. She was surrounded by people who had healed themselves of 'incurable diseases' using living foods and Yoga.
The learning curve was exponential. Coupled with the incredible raw gourmet food available all day long, that period became one of the first major turning points in Linda's journey of healing and sparked a compelling desire to be the Raw Food Ambassador of Asia.
Linda writes inspiring articles on raw and living foods, yoga, health, and wellness at livingfoodslindaloo.com. Visit her blog today to find out more.


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Funeral set for Thursday for fallen Georgia sheriff's deputy
Associated Press• July 9, 2019
GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A funeral is planned Thursday for a Georgia sheriff's deputy who was gunned down in a shootout northeast of Atlanta.
Authorities said 28-year-old Hall County Deputy Nicolas Dixon was killed exchanging gunfire with people who crashed a stolen car Sunday night in Gainesville.
The Hall County Sheriff's Office charged 17-year-old Hector Garcia Solis, who authorities identified as the shooter, with felony murder.
The sheriff says three other suspects have all been charged with being a party to a crime of felony murder.
Dixon's funeral is set for 11 a.m. Thursday at Free Chapel Worship Center in Gainesville, 50 miles (80 kilometers) northeast of Atlanta.


CONCORD — Exeter corporation Netria, of 37 Industrial Drive, was sentenced Wednesday morning in United States Federal Court, New Hampshire Division, for violation of the Arms Export Control Act.
As part of their plea agreement, Netria was sentenced to one year of probation and ordered to forfeit $12,560.
Charges were filed on May 14, 2014 alleging that Netria exported aircraft parts to Malaysia without a license from the U.S. Department of State, according to a press release from the Department of Justice.
The investigation into Netria began as a result of an inquiry by Netria to a Department of Homeland Security undercover storefront, with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations and the Defense Criminal Investigative Service working together.
Evidence gathered established that Netria had exported two Lockheed Martin Fuel Quantity Indicators; items designated "defense articles" on the United States Munitions List in violation of the Arms Export Control Act.
It was also revealed that Netria brokered the sale and export of approximately $2 million worth of "defense articles," including nine shipments of C-130 (a four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft by Lockheed), without a required State Department license.
During the investigation, according to court documents, corporate employees of Netria stated that they were initially confused regarding required export licenses for C-130 parts, though it was later revealed through evidence that during training in 2009, those employees personally learned of the required licenses.
"We will hold to account those who circumvent requirements designed to protect our national security," said HIS Boston Special Agent in Charge Bruce Foucart.


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NEW LAMBORGHINI HURACAN EVO RWD: WILD CHILD UNLEASHED
by Somnath Chatterjee | Jun 17, 2021 | Cars, Motor
Upon Audi ownership in the late 90s, the fate of Lamborghini took a radical turn with the Italian supercar maker finally realizing its full potential as a credible alternative to Ferrari. Of course with the Miura, Countach and the Diablo, Lamborghini did establish itself earlier but it needed the cash flows of a strong parent to take on its Italian arch rival.
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One of the first cars under Audi ownership actually changed Lamborghini since it had all-wheel drive. And since then all Lamborghini's have been launched with all-wheel drive.
Canada's best luxury website: Lamborghini, a car meant for drivers
Yet today we are eulogizing about a Lamborghini which is RWD. That happened with the supercar market exploding. In order to fill a niche for a more driver-focused Lamborghini, the RWD version of the baby Lambo was born. The earlier Gallardo had it and also now the updated Huracan EVO has it.
The message is clear: this Huracan is meant for drivers. Which is slightly baffling at first as even the AWD Huracan EVO is a lovely machine. However, Lamborghini says that the RWD version brings in a bigger sense of thrill and is also the return of the "scary Italian supercar".
So is the RWD Huracan special enough to justify its place amongst the great Italian bulls? Let's cut to chase here and begin with the engine since it is what makes this car so special in the first place.
Get behind the wheel of a 610 HP V10
It's a 610 hp V10 and it reminds you how sonorous a high revving 10 cylinder engine can be. It is one of the great power trains and one of the few cars in the world right now to have an engine of such configuration. As you might expect, it is mighty quick. Weighing just 1,389 kg, the Huracan EVO RWD can rocket to a top speed of 325 km/h and accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in 3.3 seconds.
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Wiley publishes a book on image quality "Camera Image Quality Benchmarking" by Jonathan Phillips (Google) and Henrik Eliasson (Eclipse Optics).
"The authors show how to quantitatively compare image quality of cameras used for consumer photography. This book helps to fill a void in the literature by detailing the types of objective and subjective metrics that are fundamental to benchmarking still and video imaging devices. Specifically, the book provides an explanation of individual image quality attributes and how they manifest themselves to camera components and explores the key photographic still and video image quality metrics. The text also includes illustrative examples of benchmarking methods so that the practitioner can design a methodology appropriate to the photographic usage in consideration."


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Missing the forest despite its trees
An exchange on Alert-Conservation.org over the intactness of boreal forests has just erupted. Bill Laurance asked me to weigh in as an independent appraiser of the debate, so I copy my thoughts below. You can read the original exchange between Jeff Wells and Nick Haddad (& colleagues) here.
Despite its immense size, there is little doubt that the ugly second cousin of forest conservation is the boreal region covering much of Alaska, Canada, Fennoscandia and Russia. Indeed, extending some 1.4 billion hectares, of which well over 60% is found in Russia alone (1, 2), the entirety of the boreal forest is more than double the area of the Amazon forest. Yet despite this massive expanse, the impressive biota it shelters (2), and its important contribution to the global carbon (1), nitrogen (3) and oxygen (4) cycles, the boreal is an oft-overlooked region in terms of global conservation priorities and possibilities (5).
The exchange between Haddad & Sexton and Wells regarding the former researchers' recent paper (6) highlights this problem, of which even many expert ecologists are often only vaguely aware. Wells takes particular issue with Haddad and colleagues' assertion that the boreal forest is highly fragmented, claiming to the contrary that the (North America) boreal forest is "… truly intact … ". While Haddad et al. respond that they did not differentiate between 'natural' and human-caused fragmentation, my view is that the exchange misses some important concerns about the state of the boreal forest.
Wells correctly points out that the boreal zone in North America is "massive", but can his other claim – that it is "truly intact" – stand up to scrutiny? Citing one of my own papers from 2009 (2) to demonstrate (correctly) that the boreal forest of North America holds a stunning array of species, Wells neglects to highlight that in that same paper we also identified the extensive, artificial fragmentation that has occurred there and in other parts of the boreal zone over the last few decades. For example, we showed clearly that only 44% of the entire biome is considered to be 'intact', defining the term precisely as "areas ≥ 500 km2, internally undivided by infrastructure (e.g., roads) and with linear dimensions ≥ 10 km". Satellite imagery has also confirmed that between 2000 and 2005, the boreal biome experienced the largest area of gross forest cover loss compared to any other (7). Despite recent evidence that so-called edge effects (characteristics of a disturbed matrix that penetrate some distance into habitat fragments) are probably of a smaller spatial magnitude in boreal compared to other biomes (8), it is disingenuous to claim that North America's boreal forests are "truly intact".
This perspective also ignores the intense historical and current fragmentation to the largest boreal forest region in Russia. Between 1988 and 1993, Russia lost an average of 1.1 million hectares of forest per year due principally to logging, and an increase in fire and insect outbreaks due to direct (fire) and indirect (climate-driven insect outbreaks) human pressures has eroded the area even further (2). Add these observations to the evidence mounting that the boreal forest has already or is about to become a net carbon source due to direct (logging, fire) and indirect (climate change, insect outbreaks) human influences (1), it is counter-productive in any conservation sense to purport that the boreal zone is anything but a highly modified and increasingly disturbed biome.
I can understand that anyone used to the images of forest devastation from South East Asia, the Amazon or many parts of Central Africa might be convinced that the boreal forest is comparatively intact – for it is indeed relatively more contiguous. However, the extent of the boreal fracturing can be easily missed if not observed from broader spatial scales. From my own personal experience in the boreal forests of northern Alberta over 20 years ago, the sight of a vast expanses of boreal forest criss-crossed with seismic exploration lines and clearcuts from logging testify viscerally to our capacity to modify even the seemingly infinite spans of remote boreal wilderness. While the boreal forest might not have the same human population densities or experience the same degree of legal and illegal forest conversion as the tropics, it is nonetheless a highly and increasingly stressed ecosystem. Fortunately, we still do have the opportunity to limit the worst ravages that deforestation, climate change and fire could wreak there (5), but we have to get a lot more serious about measuring, recognising and limiting the damage we as a society seem so desperate to accomplish.
Bradshaw CJA & Warkentin IG (2015) Global estimates of boreal forest carbon stocks and flux. Global and Planetary Change 128:24-30.
Bradshaw CJA, Warkentin IG, & Sodhi NS (2009) Urgent preservation of boreal carbon stocks and biodiversity. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 24:541-548.
Vitousek PM, et al. (1997) Human alteration of the global nitrogen cycle: sources and consequences. Ecological Applications 7:737-750.
Angert A, et al. (2003) Contribution of soil respiration in tropical, temperate, and boreal forests to the 18O enrichment of atmospheric O2. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 17:1089.
Moen J, et al. (2014) Eye on the taiga: removing global policy impediments to safeguard the boreal forest. Conservation Letters 7:408-418.
Haddad NM, et al. (2015) Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth's ecosystems. Science Advances 1:e1500052.
Hansen MC, Stehman SV, & Potapov PV (2010) Quantification of global gross forest cover loss. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 107:8650-8655.
Harper KA, et al. (2015) Edge influence on vegetation at natural and anthropogenic edges of boreal forests in Canada and Fennoscandia. Journal of Ecology doi:10.1111/1365-2745.12398.
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Date : Tue, 21 Apr 2015
Tags: boreal forest, forests
Categories : biodiversity, climate change, deforestation, fragmentation
Dayna (07:26:10) :
Hi Corey,
Would you clarify where and what the photo at the start of your article is of, please? I might assume Borreal Forest being logged somewhere, but I can't see a title.